Language can be powerful in shaping ideas and the US has convinced the entire world that they are the “Americans” and everybody else on the 2 continents aren’t.

  • rarsamx@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    Where did you study?

    People who grew up in mexico and other Latin-American countries learn that America is the continent and the people are Americans.

    When Spaniards “America” was the region’s South to the US colonies. For Portuguese, it was Brazil.