Title should also say "Citizens/inhabitants of the United States of America". America is a continent (also Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania - listed in alphabetical order)(not counting the N/S Poles). Americans are the people who live in said continent. I also think we gave the website the HN-kiss-of-death :)

No reasonable person interprets "America" to mean the "continent of America". In fact, there is no continent called "America". There is only "North America" and "South America", which are 2 distinctly different continents. And within North America, which contains the US, Canada and Mexico, neither people in Canada, nor Mexico consider themselves to be "American" or within "America".

> In fact there is no continent called "America". There is only "North America" and "South America", which are 2 distinctly different continents.

...in English.

Fine. But that's the language of this article and this conversation thread. No reasonable person would assume some other language is relevant in this conversation.

HN has an international audience and the subtleties of naming the country vs the continent can be easy to miss.