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Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org> Fri, 08 November 2019 14:12 UTC

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From: Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 09:12:27 -0500
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On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 7:19 PM STARK, BARBARA H <bs7652@att.com> wrote:

> Yes. And as you can see from your first link, there are South Americans,
> Central Americans (and also North Americans). All are technically
> "Americans". People from the US who travel widely are often taught to be
> sensitive to these various populations of Americans, and not hubristically
> suggest that only citizens of the US are Americans.
>

Really? I've never heard this before. The more obvious explanation is that
this is a simple case of a word having multiple meanings depending on
context, and when that context is nationality, "American" unambiguously
refers to someone from the USA. To quote Wikipedia, "In modern English,
*American* generally refers to persons or things related to the United
States of America; among native English speakers this usage is almost
universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification." [
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_(word)] Incidentally, that page has
a lengthy history of the etymology of "American" as a moniker for people
from the former British colonies.

Kyle

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