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I understand that everyone living in the Americas are, technically, Americans but in the real world the term is used to denote people from the U.S.A. I realize that most of us have our little pet peeves, one of mine is the confusion over complement and compliment, but I don’t know what words that I should use for “residents or citizens or expats of the United States of America”? For brevity most of us describe the above as “Americans” while Canadians, Mexicans, etc. are blessed with having proper nomenclature. What word/words would you prefer that we use instead of the universal “American”?

No, it's not "the real world". It's the ethnocentric bubble too many angloparlantes live in. An acceptance of ignorance is a poor education. When I hear someone make an incorrect statement, I tend to want to correct them rather than let the lie slide.

It's like allowing someone to call you by the wrong name all your life. If they don't know better, and you don't correct them, then the lie (i.e. wrong name) is simply perpetuated, yet it remains incorrect.

I'm sure you're already aware that hispanoparlantes mostly refer to them as Gringos and Estadounidenses.

A shame to see U.S. citizens apparently unable to come up with their own demonym, unlike the rest of the nations of the world. Perhaps it explains their politics, too.