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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me ask you this. I posted earlier, when you hear someone say something negative like "stupid Americans" do you think of the continent (and all its countries) or do you immediately think they are talking about the U.S. [/quote]

Good or bad if the word American is used I assume they are talking about people from the USA simply because that is how they refer to themselves and all other American countries identify their nationality by their country rather than their continent. For some reason the term American doesn't strike me as odd as I'm from America. I think that is because there is no other word for the nationality (United Statesian??) where as there are many other terms for the name of the country...US, USA, The States etc... that allows one to avoid using the continent should they choose.

I am now curious...and don't have one at hand to look at...on the American passport, what does it say beside nationality? Does it say American? Officially I can't imagine [i]American[/i] ever gets used as a nationality due to it not being a country. Maybe citizen of the United States of America?[/quote]

Why can't you imagine it? In french they ask you what;s your nationality and the answer is American.  It diens't say American  but Mexican's don't say I am from the United States of Mexico )that is the offical name) they say Mexican. People from the US would say American. Everyone know when you say American that you don't mean from Paraguay or Argentina.[/quote]

I am from Argentina and when I hear America, it makes me think of Canada all the way down to Argetina. If you go to Argentina and say you are American someone will reply I am from America also. This will be followed by where in America are you from..

It's a bit of a touchy subject since for some reason people from the US seem to think they are the only "Americans" ....[/quote]

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