Australia, we don’t know you, but we love you, say our American friends

What some are calling Usians are people from The United States of America. I suppose they and the rest of the world back in the 1700s could have decided to use terms like United Staters or Staters , but they didn't. They used Americans and the rest of the world didn't howl or probably even comment upon it.

16th-century European usage of American denoted the native inhabitants of the New World.[8] The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.[8] In the following century the term was extended to European settlers and their descendants in the Americas. The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.[8] In English, "American" was used especially for people in the British America, and came to be applied to citizens of the United States when the country was formed.[8]

Use of the term American for U.S. nationals is common in United Nations. The Secretary General refers to people from the United States as Americans, as has the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.[19][20] The UN has referred to financial markets in the United States as "American financial markets."

The Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Italian languages use cognates of the word "American", in denoting "U.S. citizen".

Actually it was the UKians - I mean Brits - no I mean English people (because I don't think Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland had a hand in it) who named people native to the colonies which became the United States of America - 'Americans'.

All the more reason not to make a big deal of the term being used.

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Use of the term American for U.S. nationals is common in United Nations. The Secretary General refers to people from the United States as Americans, as has the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.[19][20] The UN has referred to financial markets in the United States as "American financial markets."

Ditto

Somebody better tell this guy that Americans don't want or deserve to hog the word 'American' for themselves anymore.

Do you really believe that the majority of Americans don't want to be referred to as Americans?

As for deserving it? What's to deserve? It's just a moniker and every nation in The Americas have there own, and none want to use American.

When people in the UN and around the world speak of Americans, everyone knows who they mean. There is no confusion.

Here's another recent article, one on how another outsider sees Oz.

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Cate Blanchett Cate Blanchett: One of Australia's most famous exports?

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Excuse me if I didnt ask sooner, but is Australia having some issue with self esteem?
They should just go get a pet doggie and shut the **** up.
I got my own problems fa Crissakes.

Actually it was the UKians - I mean Brits - no I mean English people (because I don't think Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland had a hand in it) who named people native to the colonies which became the United States of America - 'Americans'.

All the more reason not to make a big deal of the term being used.

Somebody better tell this guy that Americans don't want or deserve to hog the word 'American' for themselves anymore.

Do you really believe that the majority of Americans don't want to be referred to as Americans?

As for deserving it? What's to deserve? It's just a moniker and every nation in The Americas have there own, and none want to use American.

When people in the UN and around the world speak of Americans, everyone knows who they mean. There is no confusion.