No Jai you are wrong here: ¿Qué es este cáncer? or 这是什么癌症？ Please, use one of the future international languages mentioned here!

I know, I just find it hilarious, when US-Americans confuse the USA with the continent America. They really think they are that relevant.

America can refer to a country or a landweight. I find it hilarious that you insist on calling countries their formal names. You can say Austria/Österreich to refer to the Austrian Republican government, not just the Austrian region (Südtirol, some Hungarian lands), you don't have to always say Republic of Austria/Republik Österreich. Gosh formal sticks these days.

United States of America
or, America for short.

Actually it's even the contrary, Only "Americans" claim that UNited States of America is called "America". In French we call you specifically Etats-Uniens or Ricains, it is more relevant, in Spanish they also call you Estados-Unidenses.

And this is not only Europeans, the Chinese call your nation "Meiguo" whereas the continent is "Meizhou", you see they are differentiated. You are the only ones considering your nation incorporating the whole continent by "America" or "Americans".

Don't speak for, what, 6 thousand million other folk. It's really just some West Europeans that think this. Just since China has 2 words where English has 1 does not mean China call America by official name, it means China is not applicable.

What are we then? United Statists? That sounds terrible.

Heh.

Edited 2/11/2016 00:13:12

USofAnians

This is why I support an America First policy.

Immediately stop all foreign aid, build a wall between US and Mexico, and watch compelte fucking hell break loose.

This is why I support an America First policy.

Immediately stop all foreign aid, build a wall between US and Mexico,

Support Rand Paul, Ron Paul, Justin Amash, and the Liberty Movement.

Trump will build the wall.

He won't stop foreign aid. Guaranteed.

@Juq
The Chinese call the US differently compared to the continent, "Zhou" 州 refers to the continent, "Guo" 国 to the country, same thing applies for the inhabitants of the country or the continent, you just have to add the particle "ren" 人 to refer to the people: 美国人: Americans (of the country), 美洲人:Americans (of the Continent) hence no mistake. And as far as I know the Chinese are alone 1,4 billion, and many languages copied the Chinese way to define and conceive things (the Japanese, sometimes and previously the Koreans and the Vietnamese also use the Chinese characters, and hence they certainly differentiate them exactly as the Chinese do).
As for Spanish, as it seems you do not know it yet, it is a language spoken in several countries nowadays so this does not only include 'few Europeans', the Portuguese speakers and perhaps the Italian speakers call and differentiate them the same way.
EEUU =/= America, Estados-unidenses =/= Americanos

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It's truly strange that the English speakers did not find any relevant term to refer to the people living in the US.
That perhaps comes from the early days of the country, I read somewhere that in the beginning, they planned to extend the US to the whole continent, this could be a reason about why they never bothered about finding a relevant name.

Edited 2/11/2016 09:38:24

This calls for a Muzz!

its because no one cares about any other part of the americas. They're all worthless.

The Chinese call the US differently compared to the continent, "Zhou" 州 refers to the continent, "Guo" 国 to the country, same thing applies for the inhabitants of the country or the continent, you just have to add the particle "ren" 人 to refer to the people: 美国人: Americans (of the country), 美洲人:Americans (of the Continent) hence no mistake. And as far as I know the Chinese are alone 1,4 billion, and many languages copied the Chinese way to define and conceive things (the Japanese, sometimes and previously the Koreans and the Vietnamese also use the Chinese characters, and hence they certainly differentiate them exactly as the Chinese do).

Still seems to me like Chinese is not applicable to what you are saying. From what you tell me, it is like writing in English "America (country)" and "America (landweight)", except the parentheses are necessary. In truth, you can say that in China, it is said as "America", too, since 国 must goes at the end of all countries (right me if I'm wrong), 美 means America. Also, Vietnamese does not really use Chinese characters, anymore, and Japanese rarely for exonyms.

As for Spanish, as it seems you do not know it yet, it is a language spoken in several countries nowadays so this does not only include 'few Europeans', the Portuguese speakers and perhaps the Italian speakers call and differentiate them the same way.
EEUU =/= America, Estados-unidenses =/= Americanos

Well, obviously, most important thing is how it is said in English - not Spanish or French or any other tongue. Since this thread is English and most everything said on it is English. But just for fun:

English: America = USA
Chinese: N/A
Spanish: America =/ EUA
Japanese: アメリカ = アメリカ合衆国
Russian: Америка = США
German: Amerika = VSA
Portuguese: América =/ EUA
French: Amérique =/ EUA
Malay: Amerika =/ AS
Turkish: Amerika = ABD
Polish: Ameryka = SZA
Dutch: Amerika =/ VSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpqvQ-o44RI

So you're told... we don't speak the same language, we don't wear the same clothes, we don't play the same sports, we don't share the same values, we don't have similar laws, we don't have the same problems, we don't have the same solutions to our different problems, we don't have the same politics, we don't have the same political structure, we don't have the same religious views, we don't eat the same food, we don't laugh at the same jokes, we don't care about each other and we don't have a similar ethnic make-up or cultural background or geography so apart from having languages which are intelligible to each other - same as the Dutch and Danes or the Pakistanis and Indians - what exactly do we have that's so intertwined?

I thought that this was sarcasm, and maybe it is, but I'm not sure.

*Same tongue: Yes (English). When 99.99% words are the same...it's one tongue.
*Same clothes: Yes. Everyone wears a shirt and pants, and sometimes women wear skirts.
*Same sports: Mostly. America has basketball, that's the biggest difference I can think of.
*Same values: Yes, I believe so. Tell what "values" are, though.
*Like laws: Yes, absolutely. Only difference is, in America, death punishment is rarely used.
*Like problems: Depends on person to person. There's more "rurality" in America, but New Yorkers and Londoners probably have the same problems.
*Like answers: Yes.
*Like politic build: Yes, but this's nothing to do with culture anyway.
*Same faith outlooks: Yes: Protestant Christianity and Catholic Christianity. While Britain and Ireland relatively has more atheists, pretty much the same.
*Same food: No, Britain is quite agriculturally limited contrasted to America.
*Same jokes: Yes. Blackadder is funny in America, [American high comedy] is funny in Britain.
*Care for each other: No...caring for 50,000,000 folk is ridiculous. In the broader sense, though, America is a superpower - Chinese, Indians, Japanese, they all care. Britain is also powerful and cared for by Germany, France, and other EU countries.
*Like ethnic makeup and cultural background: Absolutely. 90% folk in America have English as native tongue, and 95% or so in Britain. Both countries deeply influenced by Protestant and Catholic culture.
*Like geography: Obviously not, but this is not necessary for like culture. The Isle of Wight is obviously geographically different from the Isle of Britain, but I do not think they are not British.
*Dutch and Danish are not mutually intelligible.
*Hindi and Urdu are really stretching it for mutually intelligible - not to mention loads folk don't speak either in India or Pakistan.