• D1re_W0lf@piefed.social
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    5 days ago

    And while we are at it, can we stop calling it “America”?

    There’s two continents with dozens of countries, it says a lot about how the world is viewed, when one decides that “they” are it.

    • n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
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      21 hours ago

      No, because someone who is from USA is an American like someone from UAE is an Emirate.

      No one who lives in Canada, Honduras or Brasil is going to call themselves American.

      We all know what “America” means, we all know what South America means, we all know what “The Americas” means, , we know what Latin America means, we know what Central America means. The only one that is confusing is “North America” because sometimes that includes Panama and everything north, sometimes it means only Mexico, US, and Canada, and sometimes only U.S. and Canada.