Let's see what you think :-)

[Hardi]

Exactly! That was my point all along! Thank you guys, I do this kind of comments to help educating people, so they see that America includes from the very top of it, to Tierra del fuego, Chile.... not even a drop of harmful comments, thought, just educating

What would you call a person from the United States of America?

Mickey-mousean ?

[MissLT]

Hush, I'm not asking you. I'm having a serious conversation here. If you're fooling around like that, I'll start being really nice and sweet with you as a punishment.

[Dixie]

What would you call a person from the United States of America?

They are called Americans This issue IS controversial

[MissLT]

What would you call a person from the United States of America?

They are called Americans This issue IS controversial

Yeah, they're called Americans based on the country they're coming from, not the continent they're coming from. What ERPS was saying based on his/her continent. The question "where are you from?" is more likely implied to the country. Americans can be ignorant at times, but they do remember there are seven continents, North and South America are two of them.

[ERPS]

I wouldn't call a person from the US american, I'd rather say they are United States citizens or some other way, even if it doesn't sound good... and yeah, it's controversial, since they either forgot or never had an actual... don't know the word... help me Dixie, the word for "gentilicio" but you heard the Russian guy, if they hear somebody say american they inmediately think "USA", instead of asking what country from America...

[Tora]

the idea of me being a russian guy is either controversial

though everyone doesn't notice me I say... yes ERPS... isn't it too long to call an American (from Chicago for example) A United States's Citizen?

[MissLT]

I wouldn't call a person from the US american, I'd rather say they are United States citizens or some other way, even if it doesn't sound good...

Okay, now I see what you're doing. You're making things complicated when it's not necessary.

[Dixie]

don't know the word... help me Dixie, the word for "gentilicio"

There's no equivalent. In English they just say for example "name of inhabitants of a country".

What do you call people from the US in Costa Rica, ERPS? In Spain they say estadounidenses .

[Elba]

Tora, you´re a genious.

Dixie, even for us, the latinamerican guys, is too large to call them "estadunidenses", I prefer the called them as we do in my country "Gringos", even if they are from Chine, Costa Rica, Norway, etc.

When my foreing friends, from Russia as an example, call them "americans" I don´t have any problem. I only explain to them the geographical division. But I neve go into this problem of "names".

People from Costa Rica, Perú, México, Cuba etc, who live at USA, are called here in my country "Pochos".But let me explain that we called in this way only people who has the USA nationality, but their origin (parents) is from any country of Latinamerica.
The rest of latinamericans who live in USA we called inmigrants, or ilegals, or "mojados".
We felt a big respect for the people who has to left their country to go to another place to look for a better life, even if we prefer stay here into our poor country.

It doesn´t matter how the people call you, every one have an escense, the latinamerican escense, the caribbean escense,etc. And all make the countries, the world, the life.
It Wouldn´t be frontiers.

[Oriani]

I don't call them Americans. Just Estadounidenses but unfortunately there is not a word in English so that they can be called but as for me, I think is selfish the fact that they are the only ones to be called American.