>I was watching my favourite intellectual quiz show last week: "QI", and one of the questions was "What is the nationality of a person from the USA?". I kinda missed the answers. Now a lot of them would say "American" but that essentially refers to the continent; a Canadian could equally call himself "American" (as indeed could a Mexican, Bolivian or Chilean - "North" or "South" aren't included).
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>So what is the nationality?

Regardless of the proper term now, in about 3000 years archeologists will refer to us as the "Weens" because their translations will indicate that the country was called the WE


.......or the US

(with abject apologies to Theodore Bikel)