What is the proper name to refer to people from the United States? There are some people who disagree on what to call us because they point out that the first two words of our country’s name “The United States” reflect our political organization and the last two words “of America” reflect the geographic continent.

A name is sometimes an incredible burden. Especially when you take the usal term used for the people of the United States, Americansстолове, for example. When we call ourselves Americans, it seems pretty harmless. Yet it really irritates people from Spanish-speaking countries and some Canadians who believe the U.S. has snatched the continent’s name and made it exclusively ours.

Americans is a term that once referred to all the people of the New World or The American continents, but now U.S. citizens easily slap American onto whatever we claim as our own, including cold and slimy American hot dogs, silly American jokes and shoot-’em-up American movies.

Only a few of us know that when we say “We’re Americans,” we’ve been charged and found guilty of linguistic imperialism, royal looting of a continental name and piracy worse than