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.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    We sell software by region, America is one region which includes USA, Canada, Mexico.

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      13 days ago

      But America is the country and “[The] Americas” has always been the region from what I’ve seen

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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        12 days ago

        United States of America is the country. There are other countries in the Americas. But yeah people drop the US part often.