No Stupid Questions

I have never heard anyone refer to themselves as American the way people refer to themselves as European. It's really not a thing so there is literally zero confusion when you call a citizen of the USA an American.

I usually respond to "Hey stupid", maybe try that?

Don't actually try this.

♪Booooooorn in the US-A!♪

and you have to sing it in tune to use this term correctly.

To answer your question seriously: As a Canadian, I'd say "...from the States" to describe an American.

Bonus: "our Southern neighbours" is the polite term I use when something stupid happens in the US and I'm hoping and praying Canada can ward off that part of culture making its way here.

Dickhead?

I've heard "Usamerican"

In Germany we call them "US-Amerikaner".

Learn about the states and call them by their state name like we do in the US: (washingtonians, oregonians, californians, and so on.)

Internationally people love making fun of Americans for knowing little about geography, but it's always a bit surprising to find out how little people in other countries know about US geography considering many of our states are bigger (size-wise) than many entire countries.

There is no such thing as "the American continent". North America is a continent. South America is a continent. Central America is the region connecting the two. Collectively, these are "The Americas", not "America".

I cannot think of an adjective to describe someone born on a line extending from Anchorage to Cabo San Pablo.

Can you provide an adjective to describe someone born on a line extending from Oslo to Cape Town?

US Citizen. It's the simplest and most accurate. There are plenty of people living in the US who are not citizens, but anyone born here is automatically a US Citizen, no matter who their parents are. It's another one of the half-decent things about this country the far-right Republicans would like to get rid of.

I've heard "USAmerican" used

In the context of your question: The name of their country.

Americans are called that because they're from the United States of America.

You could refer to the continent they're from (North American or South American) but that's less common.

The proper term is American.

everybody born in the american continent is technically “american” too

The implied context of your question is in English.. In the English-speaking world, there is no American continent. People from North America are North Americans; people from South America are South Americans. People from the United States of America are American. There is no ambiguity. There is also no good term to collectively describe everyone from the Americas but there’s also rarely any need to discuss that.

I consider terms such as “USonian” and whatnot to be highly offensive. Nobody should tell a people what they are allowed to call themselves in their own language just because the same word means something else in another language. It would be like telling French people they’re not allowed to call their arm a bras because it refers to an article of clothing in English. Other languages where America means something else already have their own terms for people from the US. English, however, has no real ambiguity except that caused by those trying to shame Americans for calling themselves Americans.

Screeches in freedom eagles 🦅🦅🦅

Stick with "American" because not only is it partially accurate geographically, it's completely accurate in terms of how self-centered we are as a nation as to think we're the only ones who count.

I was born in Missouri in the USA.

I am human.

This nonsense is a source of human conflict. Knock it off.

People from Canada, Mexico and South America are not technically “Americans” because none of them have “America” in the name of their country, whereas we do. In fact, it’s the only word in the name of our country that uniquely identifies us. We’re just called Americans because it’s realistically the only name we could have. If other countries that already have their own names take issue with that, they should have done something about it before we chose the name United States of America.