I have to admit that Canadians are the only people I've encountered in the Americas who really care about the continent they live in being a part of how they self-identify. And they usually forget to include Mexicans when they talk about North Americans. I think most of the rest of the people in the Americas don't really think about it too much.

;-)


But I also have to admit that the jingoism that has become one of the more obvious characteristics of our civil religion here in the US has completely put me off of using the term "American" to refer to myself and the country in which I live.