America? No such country.

 There is no America. There are Americans who live in North and South America but there is no country of "America". Amerigo Vespucci named the continent long ago. Only after the US Revolutionary War did the people in that part of North America, correctly  refer to their country as The United States of America. Not America. If one uses the word America to describe the country that is The United States Of America, it should be used correctly. The word American needs to be put between quotation marks if used in reference to a citizen of The United States of America. One can use the term "Americans" to name a people, but should add the country it is referring to more specifically because all people in the two large continents are Americans. Somehow it became shortened to "American" to mean casually, a citizen of the U.S.but it is actually not true and in my opinion, rather pompous to lightly use it this way. This fact is seldom challenged, but when travelling in other  countries and hearing someone calling themselves "American" rather than the correct term for their specfic country in the Americas, causes me, often, to speak out on the mistake. This bad habit of those who live in The United States  will discontinue only if we all make an effort to remind them politely of their error and perhaps to refer to ourselves also as Americans as should those in Mexico, Brazil, Canada and all the other countries of the Americas.