You often people from the United States say that they are Americans, and Canadians are…well, Canadians. It sounds unreasonable in India or Australia. It sounds unreasonable in Canada, too.
Well, this is political. The United States became independent centuries ago, and some in Britain referred to its citizens as Americans. As a matter of fact, Canadians are American, but there is no common single-word English adjective for a citizen or resident of the United States. So, referring to people from the United States as Americans is a bad habit that has no remedy right now.
The register of English common to professionals and university students from the United States and Canada is commonly called North American professional register or North American academic register. You can hear it in the speech of Brian MacWhinney, Steve Jobs, or Michael Tomasello. You can also hear this register in Lera Boroditsky, a woman who learned English as a 12-year old and who speaks four other languages.
Here is a TED Talk she offers:
https://www.ted.com/dubbing/lera_boroditsky_how_language_shapes_the_way_we_think?language=en&audio=en
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