Well, everybody born in the american continent is technically “american” too, including Central and South America. Is there a specific term in english for these people?
Edit: Thanks for all your answers, especially the wholesome ones and those patient enough to explain it thoroughly. Since we (South Americans) and you (North Americans) use different models/conventions of continent boundaries, it makes sense for you to go by “Americans”, while it doesn’t for us.
Estadounidenses
Thats Mexico I think.
“estados unidense” = states united (Spanish and Portuguese often put the adjective after the affected noun)
estados unidos*
Mexico’s official name is Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. I don’t think that would work well.
Yeah but estadounidense is literally the spanish word for someone from the USA.