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It's not so much about the English language. It's about concepts and logic.

No, I do NOT believe/think/know that I'm in the ""wrong"" here. I wouldn't be talking about this if I thought I was wrong. Yeah, right. That would be pretty dumb! Puhleease!

And what would be supposedly encyclopedically ""wrong"" with using a phrase like ""U.S. citizen""? That's been a very accepted term to use, has it not? Why would you or most editors want to revert that back out?

Also, why would you guys as encyclopedia admin.s prefer to cater to the wide, but wrong, majority of people who lazily apply the wrong logic to a word rather than standing first with what's actually logically correct, and not bending to the popular vote just because it's what happens to be what most people (wrongly) think is the right way to say something? Aren't encyclopedias there to show people what the REAL truth is? Well then, why not with this simple terminology?

If I ask a Canadian (or Mexican, or Brazilian, or whatever) if she was an American and she said no, then despite what she thinks is her ""correct belief,"" that so many other Canadians(/Mexicans/Brazilians) errantly believe, too (that shows what popularity does to muddy-up a fact), she'd be WRONG. If Canadians (/etc.) were to ""not be Americans,"" then how could they possibly belong to a continent CALLED  AMERICA?"