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That’s just a quirk of the English language. In Brazil we also call them “North Americans” instead of Americans, because Americans refer to all countries and peoples in the Americas.
That's exactly how I think of it, Americans are the peoples of the America's, North, Central and South. The people in the US should not hold a monopoly on that name as it somehow infers that the rest of the Americas are somehow less American and their just not. Maybe I'm looking at it wrong as i grew up in the US and we regularly refer to ourselves as american and the rest of the America's just don't do that because of our cultural and linguistic differences. Maybe more a remnant of imperialism than a quark of the english language.