this is america. you can replace the period after that sentence with an exclamation point if you'd like. this is america, and so is canada. so is mexico, and costa rica, and brazil and argentina. the americas. north central and south. and yet we are the only ones who call ourselves americans. the americas - all named after some stupid italian who thought he'd discovered them 100 years after columbus thought he'd discovered them. we are the united states of america! boom. exclamation. of is the key word in our name. of america. if you're friends of steve, you're not steve.