United States of America contains "America" in the name. That is why we call them "Americans", and their country is "America" or "The States", for short.
Calling Canadians or Mexicans or Argentinians "Americans" is just confusing. Using one word to describe an entire swath of the planet. That'd be like calling Germans "Eurasians" or Australians "Oceananians". Total loss of information.
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