Implying? Nah, nah. Just describing History.

Like, come on. I’m a citizen of a country that the US literally coup’d.

I like them as well, in particular the former because it clears ambiguity better when used in a list; I just would like more if there was a oneword.

Oh, varied local interpretations, a pretty fair point. I wish most of them were more consistent tho.

I’m willing to excuse their faults. They mostly do it out of the consequences of colonialism and cultural appropriation. That’s just as much as saying they do it because of the barrel of a gun.

That said most proposals I’ve seen on the subject are… silly or unwirldy. I’m not gonna call people from the US “estadounidense” (looooong) or “USAmerican” (uppercases) unless they tell me they’re OK with it. I’d be fine with otherwise distinguising eg.: something like “American” vs “Américan”, since English has been fine with diacritics for a good while of centuries already (née, naïve, blasé, etc).

Do you have a good source on that? Every school book and college book I’ve ever checked, plus Encarta and Wikipedia, explicitly state that it is one continent.

America is the whole continent. You guys just fenced the worst part of it.