We’ll have to agree to disagree.
Ask yourself what is meant when people address ‘the Americas’. Your interpretation would mean they could only be talking about the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas
Any person living on the North, Central, or South American Continents is an American.
You can’t simply change the rules because one nation used the word in it’s name.
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We’ll have to agree to disagree.
Ask yourself what is meant when people address ‘the Americas’. Your interpretation would mean they could only be talking about the United States.
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You’ve just changed the context. The Americas (plural) does apply to the North American, Central American, and South American continents. No problem.
As I said in another post, I lived in Colombia, SA and never heard anyone refer to themselves as an ‘American.’ But they all wanted to visit America.
Why? According to you they were already there.
Google “songs about America” and show me one that’s talking about Canada or South America.
Canada’s ‘Oh Canada’ doesn’t mention anything about being an ‘American’, not does any of the South American countries’ anthems that I was able to track down.