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As a guiding principle, be sensitive to contect when using these terms. Associated Press guidance says \u201cAmerica\u201d and \u201cAmerican\u201d can be used to refer to the United States<\/em> and U.S. citizens<\/em> if the context is clear. Given the multinational reality of The Episcopal Church, which includes dioceses in Central America, Latin America, and South America, we recommend specifying \u201cthe United States,\u201d or \u201cU.S. citizens,\u201d instead of \u201cAmerica\u201d or \u201cAmerican citizens,\u201d in references to the United States of America (USA). Also listed in<\/em> race-related and ethnic references<\/a><\/p>\n

As a guiding principle, be sensitive to context when using these terms. Given the multinational reality of The Episcopal Church, which includes dioceses in Central America, Latin America, and South America, we recommend using \u201cthe U.S.,\u201d \u201cthe United States,\u201d or \u201cU.S. citizens,\u201d instead of \u201cAmerica\u201d or \u201cAmericans,\u201d in references to the United States of America (USA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a guiding principle, be sensitive to contect when using these terms. Associated Press guidance says \u201cAmerica\u201d and \u201cAmerican\u201d can be used\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"glossary-categories":[1976],"glossary-tags":[],"glossary-languages":[],"class_list":["post-3473704","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry","glossary-categories-writing-style-guide"],"post_title":"America \/ American(s)","post_content":"As a guiding principle, be sensitive to contect when using these terms. Associated Press guidance says \u201cAmerica\u201d and \u201cAmerican\u201d can be used to refer to the United States<\/em> and U.S. citizens<\/em> if the context is clear. Given the multinational reality of The Episcopal Church, which includes dioceses in Central America, Latin America, and South America, we recommend specifying \u201cthe United States,\u201d or \u201cU.S. citizens,\u201d instead of \u201cAmerica\u201d or \u201cAmerican citizens,\u201d in references to the United States of America (USA). Also listed in<\/em> race-related and ethnic references<\/a>\n\nAs a guiding principle, be sensitive to context when using these terms. Given the multinational reality of The Episcopal Church, which includes dioceses in Central America, Latin America, and South America, we recommend using \u201cthe U.S.,\u201d \u201cthe United States,\u201d or \u201cU.S. citizens,\u201d instead of \u201cAmerica\u201d or \u201cAmericans,\u201d in references to the United States of America (USA).","acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"glossary-categories":[{"value":1976,"label":"Writing Style Guide"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jeremy Tackett","author_link":"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/author\/jtackett\/"},"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3473704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3473704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3490251,"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/3473704\/revisions\/3490251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=3473704"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=3473704"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-languages","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-languages?post=3473704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}