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Why do people keep saying USAmericans? It looks and sounds stupid, you can just say Americans, everyone will know who you're talking about .
Fixed this for you. Kind of a pet peeve of mine when people use 'defaults', like everyone on the internet are in America, or if you're talking to someone from a capital of a different country they will assume you're also in the capital, everyone lives in America timezone, everyone using English uses en_US locale, and if by some bizarre chance you're in another country you can only switch language and country together, etc
OMG, how could I have forgotten that the country taking up less than a quarter of two continents, both called America, called dibs on "American"? Sorry Beta #1. I shall discard the fact that there are 34 other countries which use the demonym "American".
Ask someone from South America
Because USians didn't stick, but their pompousness continued on. E: in the form of saying usamericans