Posted April 11, 2015
Crispy78: Well, sort of. In the same way that you are European. They've gone and made life difficult for themselves by calling their country and their continent(s) the same thing.
I would call those mentioned above Canadians, Panamanians and Argentinians. My understanding is that certainly Canadians (don't know about the others) get rather huffy if they're referred to as Americans. People from the United States of America are Americans.
DubConqueror: But then what we lack is a term for inhabitants of the continent. Though, if you view it as two continents instead, there's North American and South American (or Latin American, as it's called on the other side of the ocean). I would call those mentioned above Canadians, Panamanians and Argentinians. My understanding is that certainly Canadians (don't know about the others) get rather huffy if they're referred to as Americans. People from the United States of America are Americans.