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Pretending to more grammatically correct and calling it "statesman." lol. We all live in states, whether you're in the united states of America or not, unless you live in some kind of anarchist or libertarian commune in the ocean or something.
Language is made up. The term used to refer to people from the USA in English is American essentially everywhere. It doesn't define anything. That's just the word used, and that's OK. For example, ketchup isn't a fermented fish sauce either, despite the original word possibly meaning that, but you likely wouldn't complain about that, because we all know what it means and that's the word we've decided to use for it.
Like I said, English speakers. English isn't the only language, and in most other languages it's closer to Statesman.
As I stated in a comment below, it's like having the one friend who burst into the room and declaring himself 'the Bossman guy' and every other nation in the world was like "okay Kyle, we'll call you the Bossman Guy since your parents are rich and you're a violent bully and we don't want to fight you on your identity issues.
And yes, language is always evolving, that's how it works.
And we're speaking English...
The demonym for a German in English is German, despite it being Deutsch in German. Is this an issue?
No one is telling other language speakers what to say. I English it's the dymonym of someone from the USA is American though, and it has been for a very long time, before it was even the nation of the USA, when it was still "British America." it wasn't force or violence that made it happen, and that makes you look very ignorant. It shows your clearly just making this stand as some anti-america (which I have problems with too) position, not from an actual position of logic and reason.
Again, we all live in states, so how is statesman any less confusing than American? It's arguably significantly worse as it implies membership to far more people than it actually includes.