What is an American?

[ktalley]

Originally Posted by texdav

I smell a anti-american troll.Or a person with a big guilt complex or identity crisis.

Identity crises huh? Are we talking People born in the US that wants to refer to them self as Americans, or people who likes to refer to them self from the country they were born?

[fishmonger]

Someone who considers their home to be America. Would that include Mexico or Canada or Venezuela, though? What about Hawaii? Confusing.

[ktalley]

Originally Posted by fishmonger

Someone who considers their home to be America. Would that include Mexico or Canada or Venezuela, though? What about Hawaii? Confusing.

Now I am confused too.

[fishmonger]

If it makes things less confusing I was responding to the original post, although I inadvertently made things look like I was responding to thee, according to the King James Version interpretation of things.

[Neutre]

Originally Posted by Negotiator75

You just said it right there, "The United States of America". What gives us the right to use "of America" ?

Because the USA is in America.

Originally Posted by Negotiator75

Shouldn't it be the "United States of North America"?

Why should it be the "United States of North America"?

Originally Posted by Negotiator75

If provinces in South America decide to unite and they call it "The United Provinces of America", who would you assume they belong to right off the bat?

Doesn't matter, because the truth is, there's no such thing as "The United Provinces of America". If there were such thing, then one could think of how to distinguish them from the US Americans.