Yes, but America is two continents, not one country.

The comparison you make is if North Korea called themselves Asia.

I anticipated this nonsense in my post above.

Except that would be like Canada calling itself America.

Whenever someone yells to a crowd of people "allright how do you feel?" or "how is everyone doing tonight?" and everyone in the crowd responds by either clapping or saying "woooo!!!"

You didn't really answer the question.

"Things that shouldn't piss you off, but do..."

Discussion about what to call the USA.

I hate when my friends do that...

What in the **** are you talking about America is two continents?

lol Nicaragua? what?

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North america
South america

Is what he means i think

This really needs explaining? <sigh>

There are places outside the United States where "The Americas" or "America" is used to refer to the North and South American continents collectively. This nomenclature leads to the resultant use of "American" to refer to someone who lives *anywhere* in North or South America. Hence the comment about Nicaragua.

A Nicaraguan friend in high school tried that argument to which I responded that despite there being some superficial merit to her point, the fact is that the common use of "American" both inside and outside the United States is made with reference to citizens of the United States of America. Hence the comment about "down, down, America" not being directed at Nicaragua, or Peru or Argentina for that matter if you think I'm picking on Nicaragua.

If that ruffles feathers of people living elsewhere in "The Americas".....<shrug>

What is this "down, down, America" business?

In which parts of the world there are no 2 America continents?! How do you call South America? Africa's sister?

I'm in team 7 continents with Oceania instead of Australia.

South America? You mean like Texas?

But then aren't there 4 Americas?

Even 8 or 9, like, Southwest America (Phoenix) etc? Central America (Kansas)

What the ****. People in South America aren't "Americans" any more than people in New Mexico are "Mexicans" or New England are "English".

This doesn't make sense.

Lol you

99% of the people in the world would use the term "Americans" to mean "people from the United States of America" so lol you.

You've polled 99% of the world? This statement seems to be misleading.

This is trivially easy to disprove as the population of South America is more than 1% of global population. They refer to themselves as Americans therefore, lol you.

It is a frequently used chant in anti-American protests:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/03/wo...n-in-iraq.html

people who think the USA is not the goat

Losing a board game, card game or video game against a child.

They don't count.