| BraLoD said: If you start calling USA as America, you can't expect me to give you an answer. Because I'm American too, as I live in Brazil, and I don't think our continent is only your country, as it really isn't. Cuba is part of America too and until some time ago was a socialistic country, and you can't call an American country anti-American. But even if you are only talking about USA, no, people are free do have their own ideals, and USA is supposed to be a free country, so anti-USA would be judge people for what they believe and try to impose what they have to be. |
I've been through this many times. The Americans, call the United States of America, America because at one time it was a collection of colonies found on the continent of North America, and all persons within these colonies and in Britain called these people Americans and the collection of these colonies America. It has nothing to do with American egocentrism. Don't like it? Don't speak English.
Now there are the continents of North America and South America, and in the English language, we refer to their inhabitants as North Americans and South Americans.
Another interesting fact is that the collection of American English colonies were also called Columbia, by many. Hence, Washington: District of Columbia.







