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Originally Posted by Northumbrian
What a load of nonsense! I'll call myself after the name of the country I live in - not an island, if you don't mind.
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So .... United Kingdom of England and Wales then. Why do you think we call ourselves British at the moment?
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Originally Posted by Northumbrian
And to compound your nonsense, Canada occupies more of North America than the USA, but they don't call themselves American.
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I know. I am a fiend for geography.
People are named or name themselves after contiguous areas of land. It's one of the oldest and most basic forms of geopolitics. The other method, of naming our collective by an "agreed" name leads to Balkan like names. Slav - Yugoslav - Serbia, Slovenia, etc. in less than a hundred years.
Canada was separated geopolitically from the United States by the British Empire and so due to complex geopolitics does not use the term "Americans".