Edited sentence: "America" is part of the full name of the "United States of America" which is why the people are called Americans as a Nationality.It is just the fact that it is part of the name of the USA.It is not an attempt to slight the people of the other nations.Over the years the Liberal Teachings have forgotten or left this fact out.The people there are called Mexicans.There are and have been other countries with "United States" as part of their names, such as the United States of Mexico.They knew this in 1776.Yes all persons living in the Americas can call themselves North or South Americans or Americans as residents of the continents but no other country has "America" as part of it's name