What are we are referred to as? Needs to be put to rest.

Regarding your attempt to use the term, “Estadounidense”, no doubt someone will point out that Mexico is actually the Estados Unidos Mexicanos, so you are no further ahead.

Uh, well, um, Estadounidense is the word that I have heard Mexicans use. I looked it up in my SpanishDict application and the application translated it as American. So, um, that is what I thought would be useful to translate back into English. And, well, yes, I guess Estadounidense could technically also connote a Mexican citizen. Ah, sorry.

How 'bout, "Clueless Gringo enamored with Zihuatanejo, Mexico, originally from the country north of Mexico that invaded Mexico three times?"

(I guess you just can't please everyone, eh?)

I enjoy being pedantic as much as the next guy.

No wait, the next person, because it might not be a guy.

No wait, what if the next person doesn’t like n]being pedantic and I do?

What if the next person refers to my avocado salad as being a vegetable salad and I insist it is a fruit salad? And they object to my insistence that his bananas are berries?

Regarding your attempt to use the term, “Estadounidense”, no doubt someone will point out that Mexico is actually the Estados Unidos Mexicanos, so you are no further ahead.

If you want to make an accurate comparison, Estados Unidos Mexicanos is not the same as saying Estados Unidos de México. Mexico isn't the nation lacking a demonym like the USA. Mexico is a country. America is a supercontinent, not a country, and throughout America's history since long before there was a United States of America the rest of America has referred to their collective selves as Americans. All U.S. citizens have to do is consult their passports to see that under Nationality it does NOT say "American". They don't have a proper demonym. They keep using the continent, which before there was a USA, was the common way for Europeans to refer to everyone on this land mass, which is where the confusion originated.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/America

At the bottom of this page you'll see where it says "Forum time: 2026-06-16, 16:36 (America/Mexico_City)."

I thought this quote from the link that Rob provided was interesting.

FREDONIA, FREDONIAN, FREDE, FREDISH, &c. &c. These extraordinary words, which have been deservedly ridiculed here as well as in England, were proposed sometime ago, and countenanced by two or three individuals, as names for the territory and people of the United States.

The general term American is now commonly understood (at least in all places where the English language is spoken,) to mean an inhabitant of the United States; and is so employed, except where unusual precision of language is required.

[John Pickering, "A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America," Boston, 1816]