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by bombcar 496 days ago
And anyone else who might technically be called an American doesn’t want the name anyway.

“USian” could apply to Mexico as they’re the United States, too, and since they’re in America they could also be “USofAians”.

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> and since they’re in America they could also be “USofAians”.

That's a stretch, the country they live in is United Mexican States which doesn't abbreviate to USofA.

Mexico in short doesn't have the ambiguity of America.

'America' doesn't have the ambiguity you talk of either, not in 99.99% of contexts.