Wrong we are not Americans, we happen to reside in North America but are Canadians, so to be correct you would need to say North American. Nobody would call a Brazilian an American, you would be laughed at scornfully and small children would throw rotten produce at you.

Come to Canada and try it bud, see how far you get. Try it in Mexico also, there they'll likely you laugh at you and call you an idiot, here you'll be lucky if you don't get knocked in the throat.

It's been like this forever. We're nice but ONE thing we don't like is being mistaken for Americans. before we were polite about it but now not so much.

I hear this a lot from South Americans. You can't force people against their culture. If you are in Canada, "American" means "man who outruns wisdom".

we are North Americans. not americans. we're Canadians.