Three Groups of 7 Quiz

Jerry928, I am Canadian and me and the majority of the people I know refer to USers as Americans, but I don't think that it should be accepted as an answer for the United States when you can simply type USA.

Amiiville, do you also complain about the people from Republic of China being called Chinese, or people from the Commonwealth of Australia being called Australians? I don't hear too many people calling them Republic of Chinese or Commonwealth of Australians, nor do I hear them called "Republic-ers" or "Commonwealthers". Micronesians are not called "Federationers" or FSers. Why do people keep harping on about this?

But *jacobszekula*, I don't think "Americans" means only for people of the USA, but it means anyone from "North and South America". Simply, a person from "Brazil is a Brazilian", but he's an "American" in the first place and then, "Brazilian". Similarly, a person from "Mexico" is "American" first and then, "Mexican", etc.

So, yes, as you said, I think typing just "America" for "USA" is not accepted.

Oh boy *ander217*, you clearly are talking about one thing and forgetting something.

Remember, there is a problem of understanding when people say just "America" because it's not just "a single country", even the continents are also called "Americas"! As I said in my above comment, all the people from "North and South America" are *Americans* FIRST and *Mexican, Canadian, Guatemalan, Argentinian, Chilean, etc.* NEXT.

So, there will be a clear doubt to someone if you just say "America/American", it's NOT WRONG, but it's confusing.

So, it's always better to say "I'm from the USA" rather than just using "I am American". (it's still acceptable tho, just a little confusing that whether he/she is from the country AMERICA or the continents AMERICAS)

Coming to *China/Republic of China* and *Commonwealth of Australia*, there's no other country or place with that name, so you can undoubtedly say *Chinese* and *Australian*