Who Are WE RV'ers Really?
It has occurred to me that much of the contentious discussion on this site that so infuriates the moderators and others is due in part to the varied ideas we have about just who is an "RVer" and the d...
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toedtoes wrote:
Oh and if you really want to get exact about it. This country is NOT called America. It is the United States OF America - as in we are a group of states in the continent of America (which includes North, Central and South America) who have united as one. So, people from Canada are "Canadians", people from Mexico are "Mexicans", and people from the United States of America are "people from the United States of America".
By the same reasoning, people from the United States of America are called "United States of Americans."
Now it becomes obvious why we are abbreviated as "Americans."
It's not because we are North Americans.
