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Piss off I meant.

You have a point there, Pancho.

So? Irish-Unitedstatesian, Afro-Unitedstatesian, etc??? We can FIX that easily enough!!! LOL.

Whatever you're comfy with; that was the question.

I think I'll just call myself an IrishFrenchGermanEnglishInRegardsToMyAnc estryKindaSortaInTheMiddleOfTheAmericasB ecauseIWasBornThereAndI'mSureI' mGoingToHaveToApologizeToSomebodyThatILe ftOutOrInadvertantlyPissedOff.

Either that or I'll just call myself an American because I'm a citizen of the United States of America.

What to do, what to do.........

What about the indigenous people of this continent we came to call/know as North America? I think they are now referred to as "Native Americans". And I think it's still true that ANYONE born in this country - regardless of what country/continent their parents came from, and whether or not they became U.S. citizens - is considered a legal U.S. citizen and an American. Isn't that what the "Elian Gonzalez case/issue/showcase was all about?

Who's an "American"? I think it depends on who you're asking.

I dunno - my mother said I was a Heinz 57 variety mutt....

Amerigo Vespucci wasn't a voyager, he was a cartographer who named the New World after himself on some of his shipping charts. He was sent to the New World to chart it since it wasn't known whether it was an island, a set of islands or a larger land mass. His first landing was in Brazil/ Venezula.

Every protester on earth says "America", even in Latin America. They alternate it with "Yankee". Pretty conclusive to me that we are Americans. In the 70s, there were folks south of the border commenting that there was more to the Americas than us - and they also protested us calling ourselves the United States of America. They have an Organization of American States. Still, when you see those 'anti-American' banners, they usually surround one of our Presidents.

Should we rename ourselves Ericksons? Or Brendanites? Leif and his uncles really found Canada but St. Brendan did make it to Virginia long before Jamestown.

People in europe were for alonf timeconfused tat people from america usualy introducd themselves as coming from a state where aer you from, Pennsylvanis or which ever state. I answered New York

I think that commonly Americans are considered residents of the United States. The reason I say this is that people from Canada identify themselves as Canadians and people from Mexico identify themselves as Mexicans and people from South and Central American countries identify themselves with the names of their respective countries, i.e. Brazilians, Peruvians, etc. People from the U.S. call themselves American as opposed to United Statisans. However, technically Americans are residents of the Americas that includes North, Central and South America.

copied this something to think about.
In the 1800s, native tribes gradually lost claim to the lands they had inhabited. And it was not until the 1879 Standing Bear trial that American Indians were even recognized as persons in the eyes of the white man's law. Judge Dundy declared that yes, Indians were people within the meaning of the laws, and that they had the rights associated with a writ of habeas corpus. However, he left unsettled the question of Indian citizenship.
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, also known as the Snyder Act, was proposed by Representative Homer P. Snyder (R) of New York and granted full U.S. citizenship to America's indigenous peoples,