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Leftists in recent years have attacked this meaning, claiming falsely that all the residents of North and South America are just as much Americans. They want no one to use the term.
Leftists in recent years have attacked this meaning, claiming falsely that all the residents of North and South America are just as much Americans. They want no one to use the term.
In fact people outside the United States almost never call themselves "Americans".
In fact people outside the United States almost never call themselves "Americans", and almost always linit the term to the U.S. The people of Canada, for example, almost never call themselves "Americans."
The term "North America" usually refers only to the U.S. and Canada, but sometimes Mexico is included, as in the "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA).
In Spain, the Spanish term "Americano" means someone who lived in Spanish Latin America and has now returned to Spain.
In Spain, the Spanish term "Americano" means someone who lived in Spanish Latin America and has now returned to Spain.
Leftwing groups in the 1960s sometimes denigrated the U.S. as "Amerika" (with a k, to suggest the KKK).
Leftwing groups in the 1960s sometimes denigrated the U.S. as "Amerika" (with a k, to suggest the KKK).
==Further reading==
* Villafañe G. Santo, . Luís Cláudio. "American, United Statian, Usamerican, or Gringo?" ''AmeriQuests'' (2005) 2#1 [http://ejournals.library.vanderbilt.edu/ameriquests/viewarticle.php?id=21&layout=html&OJSSID=4d93ed8e8b059174a7b4b41c3d215eff online edition]
[[Category:Ethnicities]]
[[Category:Ethnicities]]