but they aren’t Americans. They are either South, Central, or North Americans. None of the countries in South or Central America have ‘America’ in their name.
do you suppose that the residents of the United States of Mexico would object if residents of the United States of America began calling themselves ‘United Staters’?
Not when "America’ is in your country’s name. So what should we call citizens of The United States of AMERICA? USAers? how about United Staters? well that wouldn’t work it would upset the citizens of the United States of Mexico.
no need to. If they want to claim to be Americans it’s fine by me. I only have an issue If they object to me calling myself an American then we can have a discussion.
I see the shift. Like I said, I have no objection to people calling themselves American. I object to them having an issue with people in the USA calling themselves American. Just because a citizen of the USA calls themselves an American it should not be considered a slight to anyone who resides in the American continents.
The point of my being in the program was to learn how to do deals in an international business environment. If calling them “Americans” is going to help me work with them better so we can get good grades in the program and help us all eventually make more money, I’ll happily do it, because it’s easy enough to do. If I wanted to go around making political statements, I’d have taken up poli sci or just marched around the White House with a sign. I don’t see how that grows the pie or increases my bottom line unless I wanted to become Steve Bannon, which I didn’t, so somebody else can deal with that.