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Originally Posted by Sparrow
When we in Europe talk about 'Americans' we generally mean people from the U.S.; although anyone in South, Central or North America is also an American.
I often wonder - do non-U.S. Americans mind us using 'American' in that way?
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In Spanish we try not to use "American" for US-ans, "North-American" is also another term for US-ans that we try to avoid (when I say "we", I rather mean that it is actually often used, but conscious people frown it). We have our own word for US-ans ("estadounidense"), and "Americans" are from Chileans to Canadians, but quite often people from Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas.