Americans (inhabitants/citizens of US) when people from other countries come to theirs : "These people need to speak English"
Americans when they visit other people's countries : "Why don't these people speak English???"
EDIT : By the context of this post it's blatantly obvious which definition of 'American' is being used lol, but I added an explanation above anyway. π And yes there is more than one definition of "american", usually context makes it clear which is being used for most people
Are you defining Americans as "people that live on the American continent and the Caribbean" or "people that live in the United States of America"?
I think OP means the former.
Mexicans do not call themselves Americans even knowing they are from North America.
Nobody in the Caribbean calls themselves Americans ππ
People from and what they are called in English : Mexico - Mexicans, Canada - Canadians, Colombia - Colombians, Venezuela - Venezuelans, Panama - Panamanians, Brazil - Brazilians, Etc etc
Do you see a pattern? People from United States of America - Americans
Only on Reddit or Lemmy and places like them would you get a bunch of nerds storming in to say everybody in North, Central and South America are Americans.
On CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Voice of America etc.,etc Americans are the people of the USA.
Or when they present poll results of Americans, they polled in Mexico, Ecuador, El Salvador, Canada etc etc too?
I'm defining Americans as most people do, the people that fucking sing God Bless America. Nobody in Latin America calls themselves Americanos, americanos son los gringos, de los EEUU
Not even the "american continent", that would include Canadians and they are not Americans. Los EEUU, the United States of America... And the fact that I have to explain that is irritating af, it should be obvious what "Americans" means. The TalibΓ‘n does not target Colombians, Mexicans, Chileans, etc when they go after Americans