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**KLIMOV25gyi** · 12-02-2009, 04:16 PM

This is no excuse but just an observation.
If in Europe people are referring to "Americans" they are talking about the inhabitants of the United States of "America". They are not discussing someone from Nova Scotia or Ecuador. The former is from Canada and the other one from South America or Latin America.
Americans are from the US of A. You can visit any European city and ask any passerby about Americans and they will refer to the US of A.
I realize that the other inhabitants of the American Continent will feel left out in this theoretical discussion, but alas this is what's happening at least in Europe. I guess that the same will apply for Africa and Asia but that's my educated guess.
If I have offended the inhabitants of the American Continent then Mea Culpa Maxima Culpa............

Oh I filled out the questionnaire and have sent it by pm to the initiator of this social experiment.
I hope that my contribution was a helpful one.

Fonsz, I understand what you mean. It has been really spread the usage of "American" refeering to the Yankees.
At the end, the name of my continent (not that I bought ti guys, I mean that I'm an American too) was given from our European ancestors, adn it refeered to teh colonies that Spain and other European countries had in The Americas (which also is a correct name). The Yankees began to spread that ambiguos meaning of American, and as far as I can tell, Any person from America that goes outside the continent, is an American, and they com from AMERICA.

And the last time I saw an US passport, in the area that refeers to the nationality, it says "United States of America", not American.

Is for us, the other Americans to use it properly and give it back the real meaning of the word.

12-02-2009, 04:16 PM	#36
KLIMOV25gyi Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 479 Senior Member	This is no excuse but just an observation. If in Europe people are referring to "Americans" they are talking about the inhabitants of the United States of "America". They are not discussing someone from Nova Scotia or Ecuador. The former is from Canada and the other one from South America or Latin America. Americans are from the US of A. You can visit any European city and ask any passerby about Americans and they will refer to the US of A. I realize that the other inhabitants of the American Continent will feel left out in this theoretical discussion, but alas this is what's happening at least in Europe. I guess that the same will apply for Africa and Asia but that's my educated guess. If I have offended the inhabitants of the American Continent then Mea Culpa Maxima Culpa............ Oh I filled out the questionnaire and have sent it by pm to the initiator of this social experiment. I hope that my contribution was a helpful one. Fonsz, I understand what you mean. It has been really spread the usage of "American" refeering to the Yankees. At the end, the name of my continent (not that I bought ti guys, I mean that I'm an American too) was given from our European ancestors, adn it refeered to teh colonies that Spain and other European countries had in The Americas (which also is a correct name). The Yankees began to spread that ambiguos meaning of American, and as far as I can tell, Any person from America that goes outside the continent, is an American, and they com from AMERICA. And the last time I saw an US passport, in the area that refeers to the nationality, it says "United States of America", not American. Is for us, the other Americans to use it properly and give it back the real meaning of the word.
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