Two Days in Iowa: On Immigration

What about the 300 students in my university (incl me) who all have full scholarships worth 84,000 each?

yeah i think the modern use of the word is twisted a bit. American refers to the continent. They should be using "Citizen", or " Citizen of the United States".

What you have to remember is that most U.S. Americans are lazy. and its easier for us to just say Americans. I personally have never met a Mexico born Mexican that calls himself American. they have all called themselves Mexican. It just the same as if i went to England and decided to become a citezen over there.(If its even possible) I would still call myself American. so when it comes to the American meaning Citizen of the U.S.A it just understood that your are meaning someone from the U.S.

The continents themselves are actually North and South America, collectively referred to as the Americas. When the U.S. was settled, they were breaking away from Britain; the colonies formed a constitution and adopted the collective name The United States of America. This name was chosen to differentiate themselves and declare independence from Britain, not to say that they were any more or less "American" than anybody else in the Americas.

I understand the Americas are North and South, but still we all Americans.
Mexicans don't called themselves Americans, because, like I mentioned before, Italians don't call themselves Europeans instead of Italians.
Do you also know that the correct name of Mexico is:
United States of Mexico or in Spanish Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
I still don't like the word "American" to refer to a U.S citizen.

dude, it wouldn't make sense if we would call ourselves stadian unitadian or whatever