[evank15]

I'm not an American. Sorry, I'm not.

I am a North American, Canadian and British Columbian.

In any case, what good is lumping half the world under a common name? Would you like to be called a "eastern hemispherer"? What good does that do? How uselessly undescriptive is that?

An American is someone from the United States of America. Saying anything else is patently incorrect.

It would be like you calling yourselves Australians in Australia, but Canadians calling you "Penal Thugs" as a proper noun. It's really no different. We have the right to call ourselves whatever we want and it is disrespectful of other nations not to refer to us as such.

Americans are Americans because that's what they call themselves. You have no right to tell them what to call themselves, just as Canadians have no right to refer to "Australians" as "Penal Thugs".

And don't start with accents. British people are somewhat annoying to listen to, Americans (most, not all) are extremely annoying to listen to, but Australians are off the charts. Worst accent in the world bar none.

Let's put it this way, I'm a student, and if I had to choose a professor between a barely comprehendible native Mandarin speaker and an Australian english speaker, I'd pick the chinese guy.