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america is a continent. let’s take back our vocabulary (fellow european here). the little orange man shows very well what i mean when he started giving names to the gulf of mexico.
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"In English, North America is its own continent as is South America. The two can be collectively labeled the Americas or the Western hemisphere. Canadians frequently refer to themselves as North Americans and never as Americans. To insist this change is to demand the entire world’s lingua franca redefine words and thereby cause mass confusion for its speakers simply because doing so would be consistent with an arbitrary definition found in a foreign language."

https://scrupulouspessimism.substack.com/p/america-means-the...


south americans is how north americans refer to south americans though.

south americans just call themselves americans.

there arent all that many canadians; whats the need to index so hard on what we think?


It's also a country. Not sure what insisting we change our demonym accomplishes.



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