Let's see what you think :-)

[MissLT]

A·mer·i·can /əˈmɛrɪkən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[uh-mer-i-kuhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to the United States of America or its inhabitants: an American citizen.
2. of or pertaining to North or South America; of the Western Hemisphere: the American continents.
3. of or pertaining to the aboriginal Indians of North and South America, usually excluding the Eskimos, regarded as being of Asian ancestry and marked generally by reddish to brownish skin, black hair, dark eyes, and prominent cheekbones.
–noun
4. a citizen of the United States of America.
5. a native or inhabitant of the Western Hemisphere.
6. an Indian of North or South America.
7. American English.
8. a steam locomotive having a four-wheeled front truck, four driving wheels, and no rear truck.
(dictionary.com)


Main Entry:
Amer·i·can Listen to the pronunciation of 1American Listen to the pronunciation of 1American
Pronunciation:
\ə-ˈmer-ə-kən, -ˈmər-, -ˈme-rə-\
Function:
noun
Date:
1568

1 : an American Indian of North America or South America 2 : a native or inhabitant of North America or South America 3 : a citizen of the United States 4 : american english
(m-w.com)

As you can see, those dictionaries get their facts right, which means there are people who know exactly what an American is. Nonetheless, it's too broad to see a person who would answer "I'm from America" when the question is, "where are you from?" Normally, people would tell what country they came from, not the continent, which brought me back to my original point, are you ashamed of where you're from, or do you enjoy the connection? And do you enjoy to be irritated when others have a different intention in their question?

[ERPS]

Did I just see something? mmmm.... it seems that the statement on someone trying to annoy people is true... come to think about it this person does annoy people by giving them his own attributes, such as racist, ignorant, ashamed of their origins and irritable... wow! you guys sure know a lot about him...

Anyway, if there's no convincent/valid or intelligent arguments I guess that it would be the end of this discussion, unless there's someone out there willing to focus his own hatred and resentment against people that try to get facts straighten because they love their country and their continent and dislike a single country getting credit/referred for the whole continent

[MissLT]

I knew you would start saying something like this. Taking others' words into your own account without seeking the truth is ignorance. Elba knows nothing about me for me to acknowledge her words. You, on the other hand, seem to drink every word of her. Good for you. If you cannot go beyond your boundaries to check other facts, which I have delightedly provided here, then my curiosity would be high to see where your intention lies. Just one small question for you, what did you mean by this?

Quoted you: He meant the black eyed peas.... that "musical" group... I saw a interesting post there, and I do agree, I hate it when people say "America" referring to the US, I'm from outta the US, yet I can say I'm an American... I just hate to see/hear people say: American

[Oriani]

I just say that I am an American too because my coutnry is a part of the American land!! Unfortunately, there is not a word in English so that People from USA can be distiguish, as I said before, and it is formal alredy the name American for them, in dictionaries, among people, etc. That's it! It's not that complicated. That's the only reason I can find... The are going to be called Amercican until I don't know when!!!!

[Elba]

you see latin news and already they use American to refer to the US citizens, meaning, we're practically surrendering our right as Americans too...

Dear ERPS, latin news at journals, radio and TV are plenty of mistakes in the grammar, editorial line, spelling, etc. What you mention is a "comon place", in spanish "lugar común". JOurnalist know that a common place could give another intention to the information, even though they continuo writting their mistakes. I know about it because I´m journalist and my specific work consist in correct all the mistakes, and belive me I must to fight all the time with the reporters because they don´t know how to use the spanish language. And this is a problem of all the international journalism, the interpretation and use people give to the language.
Don´t worry about that word. We couldn´t do nothing, except to correct people able to listen us. The rest is trash and forgive me for the expression that doesn´t has the intention to offend nobody.
Finally there is a big percentage of people from USA that has latinamerican roots, then they continuo being americans from latinamerica.

See you guy,

I´m agree with you, this topic must to be closed..OH really I´m the Mod, then I´m going to close the topic because the goal of it was supperate.
By friends,
Since the deepest of my heart,
Elba