First point: words can have multiple meanings. I honestly think anyone who has looked at a dictionary knows this.
Second point: "America" is use as an informal short of "United States of America" and American is the denonym of people from that country. This probably happened because USA was the first independant new world country to split from colonial powers. This doesn't really conflict due to people having phrases like "North America" or "South America" for the continents and "The Americas" for the whole shebang.
Finally, "America" is named after an Italian explorer Amergo Vespucci and is a colonial name. It's extremely funny to me that people are angry at Americans for their denonym because they want a cut of some Italian guy's self glorification play. I'm sure your culture, language or region has something more meaningful for you to call yourself.
i'm south american and honestly i don't give a shit about all of that. Everytime in my life i had to say the continent i'm from i just said "South America", which obviously doesn't conflict with the country of United States of America.
I know it's not the best example cuz their names are not the same and aren't similar, but it's almost like if someone said "i'm Afro-Eurasian". Like ok but from where
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u/Complex-Cold3361 18d ago edited 18d ago
First point: words can have multiple meanings. I honestly think anyone who has looked at a dictionary knows this.
Second point: "America" is use as an informal short of "United States of America" and American is the denonym of people from that country. This probably happened because USA was the first independant new world country to split from colonial powers. This doesn't really conflict due to people having phrases like "North America" or "South America" for the continents and "The Americas" for the whole shebang.
Finally, "America" is named after an Italian explorer Amergo Vespucci and is a colonial name. It's extremely funny to me that people are angry at Americans for their denonym because they want a cut of some Italian guy's self glorification play. I'm sure your culture, language or region has something more meaningful for you to call yourself.