Loud_Hot_White_Box on 03 July 2008
@ psycho: "NPD is only USA, not America. The continent doesn't belong to the US citizens ;) I'M from Canada and I'm as American as you are:D In fact, in french, US citizen should be called "États-Uniens"....................it's really ugly, but it is the good name :D"
In the US and abroad, when most people say "America" in referring to a place, most speakers and listeners understand it to mean the US. People say "the Americas" if they mean the whole hemisphere taken together, or "North America" or "South America" if they mean the continents. "America" just IS shorthand for the US of America.
