In Mexico Americans were mostly known as "Estadounidenses," however, now more people is using the term "Americanos."

I was surprised to hear from a kid that here in the U.S., they are taught that the American continent is the U.S.A., and that the rest of countries are in north, central or south America. Then I asked: So how do you call the whole continent? He didn't know. I hope this was an isolated case. Probably this is true or he was just confused witht the term "continental U.S.A."