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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Not necessarily - there’s also a MLB team with this name, so folks from different regions of the US may get pissed off/confused.

It just sounds weird to me personally, but I know it’s not an uncommon term in places like the UK/EU & I don’t take offense.

Depends on where the person using the term is from I guess?

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