• Ignacio@kbin.social
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    1 年前

    Whether it’s one continent or two, the point is that it’s bigger than the United States. At least I’ve always studied that Americans are people who live in America, either from Canada, United States, Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Argentina… Then you can divide them between North Americans and South Americans.

    • azimir@lemmy.ml
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      1 年前

      Yes, it is much bigger than the United States, though not for our lack of trying. We had quite a century or so where we tried to conquer, buy, or steal every bit of land we could.

      Today, American is still much bigger then the United States, but we US Citizens don’t even really have good vocabulary for just US vs the rest of the Americas.

    • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
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      1 年前

      I mean, that’s fine, but no one world-wide is going to hear “American” and think anything but “a citizen of The United States of America”. So, what’s the point of trying to push it as such? For all the hate American citizens get, you’d think you’d want to separate yourself as much as possible from the title. Canadians certainly won’t like being called Americans, that’s for sure.