[DoughtyOne]

Sol is Spanish for Sun. It is not the moon.

Sure some words depend on useage. When a new slang comes along it becomes a word. When you're talking about continents, you can't simply disolve millions of square miles of land and the millions of inhabitants that live on them.

Is a Costa Rican an American? Yes. Is a Chilean an American? Yes. They have a right to a continent every bit as much as we do. You can't simply erase that reality.

Ask yourself. Has axe become ask? Has nuculer become nuclear? No, they haven't. They are simply mispronounciations, mistaken perceptions. The thought that American means a United States' citizen is also a misperception.

I am a citizen of the United States. Call me an American and it means nothing to me. There is no loyalty to America. There is loyalty to the United States. However, the socialists are pleased as punch when you do this, because they wish for nothing more than to see the borders of the United States blurred, a continental entity to replace it.

When that happens you'll have Mexicans, Canadians, Costa Ricans, Bolivians, Columbians and others sitting on the trade, military and other councils that will govern us.

Thanks for the comments.

[enemy9oclock]

So what do you call yourself? An United Statesian? An USA'ian? There is no continent called 'America' - there's North America, South America and Central America (not a continent per se, but another common geographic reference). Everywhere around the world, when someone refers to Americans they are referring to U.S. citizens and everyone knows exactly what they mean. In fact, you could infer that the name United States OF America refers to America as the country and the States being OF (or from) America. Regardless of the literal accuracy, America is widely and historically synonomous with USA. The whole argument seems pretty silly to me.