Questions For USians Who Know More About US Politics Than I Do

[Homeless Nutter]

The whole point of names are to call someone what they want to be called. Someone introduces themselves as Mandy but you know their name is legally Amanda you don't call them Amanda you call them Mandy as they asked.[...]

Sure, but if Mandy asks to be addressed as - say - Female, because she's the only woman to call herself that and I can differentiate between her and other women, by calling others by their actual names - I'm going to laugh in her pretentious little face...

South America and North America are both called "America". People who live on those continents are collectively called "Americans". It makes sense, when creating a thread addressed to citizens of - specifically - USA, to be adequately specific in the choice of words, rather than just using one that can refer to all the inhabitants of continents called America.

Of course had I made this thread, I'd have used the correct word, one I often hear people born in USA use to describe their nationality - "'Murricans".