• Torres@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    As someone who was born in South America, it still kind of bothers me when people calls the US America, as if it was the only country in the whole continent :/
    In this case I also thought he meant South America at first, but it’s pretty obvious that he means the US

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      1 year ago

      I’m from Europe and I also thought he meant South America, before I finished reading the context.

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        I know, it’s more a subconscious thing for me. Also the fact that for whatever reason in many countries of south america we consider north and south america a single continent, so the word “America” would generally refer to the whole continent.

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            That when refering to the whole continent, english speaking people use “the Americas”, and “America” always refers to the US (in english)

  • arisunz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    on one hand, haha crypto clown

    on the other hand, as someone who lives in South America, yeah it’s kind of fucking annoying how people refer the the US as “America”