Americans?

Everyone who is a citizen of North, South or Central America is an American. The word American applies to all peoples living on these continents. There is one particular country that persists in designating the word "American" to itself and thus identifies itself as "American" thinking it alone is such. It is, of course, not. It refers to the word American and perhaps could be offended if reminded that everyone who lives on the Americas is an American while it is the United States of American actually. I don't know what other name it could be called. United States? USers? United Statesite? That would be up to it to decide. In fact, the so-called Americans are, in fact, Americans but not the only ones. They are but one of the American peoples who live on the two large continents, North and South with Central America between. This term used by the citizens of The United States of America meaning North America, bothers me because it is a misnomer in some ways.Only habit causes us to use just part of the true name and nothing more. Why this habit continues and is used by other world citizens is simply not correct or at the very least, is only partly correct. And perhaps it is time we stopped and updated and corrected the misconception of who "Americans" really are. When you travel in other parts of the world, the US people are identified, and identify themselves, as "Americans" and when I say "yes, they are but we Canadians are also Americans", I get some funny looks. And the surprised looks are understandable. When the "lookers" finally get it, they make no comment or change to their incorrect use of the word "American" in reference to those who belong to a country called The United States of America. The United States is only part of the Americas and not the major part, unlike its personal opinion of its size, both in area and of population. There should be no frowning or yakking about it because the situation happens to be the truth, and, in my opinion and perhaps that of others, it needs to be changed for clarification purposes if nothing else. So okay, what do you think the United States of America will name itself? If it says "American" that is correct but since they are but one of the Americas, it begs some kind of specific designation.  On the other hand what happens when you call Canadians, Canadian Americans or you call Mexicans or Brazilians, their country name with American tagged on at the end. It seems that ever since the Aborigines welcomed, or not, others who came to their shores to make it what we have today, this matter was overlooked. How many people of other countries yearned to come to "America" where "the streets were paved with gold" to find freedom in a new way of life not dominated by a royalty class system. Many of them forgot about the designation "American" that was misunderstood somehow and they landed at Ellis Island and not Canada or Panama or Peru. Who are Americans? In truth? I think it's time we got that straight and identified which "Americans" we are talking about.