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.
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.
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.