Why do US Citizens call themselves Americans if America is the name of the continent
First, I am telling all the readers that I won’t answer the comments on this article. I will publish them, and you can keep on talking about this subject if you wish. Frankly, I am tired of hearing so much talk and seeing so little positive action. People are masters of watering everything instead of making something waterproof.
Here is something about the subject
The Key to the Door of Solutions
People,
those geniuses,
solve the problem by creating a new,
more significant problem.
In that way, the primary concern
seems insignificant.
The man is clever.
We always have a key
to the door of solutions.
© Yelling Rosa
2024-01-20
After reading the people’s explanations, one of them stood out. The writer said that America wasn’t initially the name of the continent but a part of it. In my opinion, that doesn’t mean anything. Almost all words have first meant something else than they later have started to mean. Usually, their meaning has broadened.
Where Did the Continents Get Their Names?
The answer involves the sunrise and sunset, a big bear and a little bear, and three mythological queens; read the whole article
This is a problem
Despite many opinions, it is a problem that citizens of the USA speak in the name of the whole continent. It is as absurd that Germans start to call themselves Europeans in every situation of life. In that case, we could read that Europeans voted Friedrich Merz for the chancellor of Europe. There are two possible solutions. The USA stop calling itself America and its citizens Americans, or the continent will be renamed. There are already suggestions for the land of the USA and its citizens; see below. The new continent’s name could have originated from the continent’s first inhabitants’ language and/or habits.
WHY NOT USANIAN AND USANIANS
From Wiktionary
Noun
Usanian (plural Usanians)
- An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
- 1945, Charles Grey Grey, The civil air war, page 116:
I remember Juan Trippe arriving at Croydon from Paris in a Handley Page Hercules, at which that great pseudo-Usanian Cy Caldwell had thrown the jeer that it embodied ”built-in head winds.”
- 2007, Robin D. Gill, The Woman Without a Hole—& Other Risky Themes from Old Japanese Poems, page 342:
Like Usanians in the last half of the 20c, Japanese in the middle part of the Tokugawa Era often exhibited a smug sense of superiority vis-à-vis foreign countries
English citations of Usanian
Adjective
- 1947, Journal of the American Institute of Planners[1], volume 13, page 35:
When, however, he surveys the USAnian scene, as he has been doing in the past months as chief French architect of the UN Planning Commission, he comes closer to being able to put his theories into practice.
- 1953, American Institute of Architects, editor, Journal of the American Institute of Architects[2], volume 19, page 22:
The afternoon at Lauriston Castle, incidentally, was marked by that same freedom from both oppressive formality and unseemly high-jinks which constitutes the principal difference between British and USAnian gatherings of this sort.
- 1959 May, George H. Hambley, ”Your Letters: ’Why not USANIAN’?”, in The Rotarian, volume 94, number 5, page 54:
Let me say a word of commendation, however, for you boys, you ”Usanian” friends, over in the States.
- 1971, Norman Ward, ”Where But in Usania”, in John Harold Redekop, editor, The Star-Spangled Beaver[3], Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, →ISBN, →OL, page 5:
And even without Usanian invasions, Canada is carefully training companies of regulars to make invasion unnecessary. A whole generation of professional educators graduated from Usania, or from faculties influenced by Usania, schooled in Usanian concepts and Usanian solutions to Usanian problems, has skilfully kept Canadians from being curious about Canadian social, political and culture institutions, and refrained from telling English Canadians much about French Canadians, apparently because Usanian educational theory does not acknowledge the duality that is Canada’s.
- 2007, Robin D. Gill, The Woman Without a Hole—& Other Risky Themes from Old Japanese Poems[4], Paraverse Press, →ISBN, →OL:
That [censorship] is because the book I found it in was published when Japan was occupied by the Allies or still pretending to share in Usanian Puritanism. (p 20);
Nowadays, Usanian youth wear their crotches around their knees. (p 28)
note that unlike Usanian Confucianisms, it plays on something actually in the Analects (p 38);
If Martial were writing in Usanian English (p 216);
To most Usanian readers this might seem a serious matter (p 323)
Noun
- 1952, Journal – Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, volume 29, page 52:
Whenever we get into conversation with a Canadian or a Usanian on a train, we find him ready to talk about his home town.
- 1971, Norman Ward, ”Where But in Usania”, in John Harold Redekop, editor, The Star-Spangled Beaver[5], Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, →ISBN, →OL, page 3:
Who but a Usanian could think up a digest magazine whose readers can confidently anticipate, in issue after issue, articles such as ”Friendship can be made to pay”
THE NEW NAME FOR THE CONTINENT
This option is a much more difficult one. Over 1000 indigenous languages are used in the American Continents, but linguistics will likely find some common factor for the name in the long run. This new name would be the right choice in a moral way. America is the imperialistic name for that continent. In that sense, it would be good that Yankies and Feredationers call them Americans. They are real imperialist who are about to make America great again. Of course, many people don’t want to broaden the land area.
PS I know people don’t like when someone says something critical about their native country. The USA situation is currently very challenging and is about to affect the whole world. It is a habit that causes big countries to lose their sense of reality occasionally. The other big country in Europe wants to make itself great again. We get what we ordered if we see these developments as dangerous and open our mouths. If you wonder why I am talking about the name of the continent and imperialism at the same time, I just can’t do otherwise. The name of America is an imperialist one.
Finland is a small country, but it also has its sins. If anyone reminds me of them, I will be glad. My country hasn’t done anything to ease the pain of the Palestinians but is about to buy weapons from Israel. This is more disgusting because Finland answers Ukrainians’ cry for help.
