2006 (UTC)

 Sorry, WilyD, but re-stating a flawed argument doesn't validate it. You're starting from the standpoint that the one true meaning of a word is the one used in a single place and, thus, all other different uses of the word are invalid. This is not true. Although movies and books have made "American" an understood term for "from the United States" in most countries "American" is used for the landmass and not the country. In Latin America (which comprises far more people than the USA itself) the term "Americano" is used for the landmass and the continents, not for a country. This may sit well because as you've implied "America" has always been for you your country and while this is respectable it doesn't mean your opinion is more valid that the one from those that don't share it. Incidentally, stating that only your local opinion is valid is as much soapboxing as you're trying to lay on others. Unless the Wikipedia is suddenly defined to be formally U.S.A.-Centric (and being in english obviously doesn't count) then "rest-of-the-world" views are perfectly acceptable. This page exists, in part, to make it clear that "American" is not always a demonym of the USA and this is a fact. As much a fact as U.S. citizens believen it does.
  13:46, 10 November