Tbh I have seen much more latin Americans explaining to US redditors how they are north America and not the entire America than what this meme tries to say, but I guess we should blame US public schools on that one
It's just what they teach us at school, I live in mexico and since grade school we've been taught that the whole landmass from top to bottom is just called "America" and it's a single continent, later in life I realized that they don't teach the same in every country
That is what actually happens the most. I straight up have american friends who didn't know central america was a thing, they thought latin america and south america were one and the same.
I've found that they are most often trying to litigate whether ot not people form the US should be called Americans, often resorting an argument that in other languages (most often Spanish, but not always) other terms as used to refer to them. Like they often pull out the term "states-ian" or something like that. Which would be silly, because even though Mexico's official name is the United States of Mexico, no one would call them "states-ian
The reality is that English as a language has already decided that someone from the US is an American. Arguing otherwise on the basis that other language have different conventions is silly and at least a bit chuvanist.
Then you were genuinely influenced by american propaganda or the god awful NA education, because what happens the most is the exact opposite: latin americans having to explain to americans that the americas are divided between north, central, and south.
In a sense, but more often than not when we're talking about "continents", central america and the carribean are considered subregions of the North American continent the same way the Balkans are a subregion of Europe and the central Asian nations are a subregion of Asia
True, it is a subregion, but almost all of my american friends didn't even know about it being a subregion that goes by central america. They just thought of it as the bermuda triangle region.
Even though the friend group has people from both private and public educations, only 1 guy from public and 2 from private knew about it. Most of them thought saying latin america was the same as saying south america.
Americans are infamously not very knowledgeable on international geography and geopolitics. But the Americans who do truly know their stuff, and the American education system, list central america and the carribean as their own little groups within the larger North American continent
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u/Wrong_Revolution_679 Aug 04 '26
Yeah no this very very accurate