[Teresa19740]

I don't understand why there's a huge chunk of land called 'America' since the early 16th century, but my country gets to be called plain America. And it's not just my countrymen who call my country 'America' and its inhabitants 'Americans.' I go to Europe and everyone calls me American. As for a reason...I don't know. For years now I've refered to my country as 'the U.S.' or 'the United States,' even in casual conversation, because since I traveled to Costa Rica, 'America' means all the land of North America and South America. Now when I hear people say something like 'America's relations with Mexico are...' I want to scream. The problem for me comes in the name of our nationality. In English, what can I call myself? There is no word known to me that means 'inhabitant of the United States of America' or 'that being from the United States of America,' so I end up saying 'American.' Sometimes I use 'estadounidense' (Spanish), but not a lot of people understand that.

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Name : Teresa19740, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 20, City : Macomb, State : IL Country : United States, Occupation : student, 

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