I think everyone anywhere can call themselves an American, but being nasty to us when we call ourselves that, when it is our name, is grossly immature and petulant....I have a technicality to call you on and I am one of the many who looks down at my nose on Americans so there I gotcha. It is silly and mean and they do it to put us down and not to make sure others are included, which they certainly are if they wish to be known that way. And that includes Greenland, which is on the continent of America..north America... America is a concept as much as a place and it has some very ideas in it and jumping on people for no particularly good reason is stupid. mg