Well, everybody born in the american continent is technically “american” too, including Central and South America. Is there a specific term in english for these people?

Edit: Thanks for all your answers, especially the wholesome ones and those patient enough to explain it thoroughly. Since we (South Americans) and you (North Americans) use different models/conventions of continent boundaries, it makes sense for you to go by “Americans”, while it doesn’t for us.

  • @cmder
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    121 year ago

    In french you can say états-unien and you might translate it as States-nan

    • @Zeth0s
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      91 year ago

      In Italian “statunitensi”, i.e. United States people

        • @Zeth0s
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          1 year ago

          Because in many languages that are not English, America is the whole continent. What Americans call “America” is United States of America. We need a word for their citizens, that is not the name of the inhabitants of the whole continent