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.

  • Yttra@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

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

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      10 days ago

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