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.

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

That's so interesting! I didn't know that Brazil was also a "United States."

I wish that there was a name for US Citizens in the same way but with English being such a shit show combination of too many different languages, I don't know if that'll be possible. The only way I see it happening is if the US just "adopts" a word from someone else's culture, that's usually how English gets a new word or term.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    I didn't know that Brazil was also a "United States."

    They're not; they were using that as an example. They're actually officially called the Federative Republic of Brazil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil?wprov=sfla1).

     


    Edit: They used to be, though. See below comments.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Huh... I stand corrected.

    Sorry about that. 👍

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No problem bro, most people here don't know that because it lasted for about 4 days or so. Our first president liked our flag and national anthem from the imperial era, so he said it was bullshit to change them. That's why this "Republic of the United States of Brazil" didn't catch on (thankfully), and got forgotten.

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