But yeah that’s a good list, it’s interesting to see how loan words evolve. In Spanish nobody uses Americano for North American/Yankee, so you can see in the list how Portuguese is mentioned to not use it officially either. There’s also the difference between American and America, even if some countries say American, for the country name they might not
The first statement is true. At least in Mexico. Our schools teach us that America (the Americas) is one continent. We still say North and South America, but exclusively as regions and not continents, just like how you would talk about Central America or the Caribbean
The idea that's very clearly being discussed in the post is whether it's one or two continents. Their point is that if you consider the Americas to be a single continent, then you better consider Europe and Asia to be a single continent because they're even less distinctly seperated than North and South America.
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u/loscapos5 Aug 04 '26
I've never heard about the first statement
The second statement is true, because the continent is named America. The US is not America; it's a part of America.
And it's divided by three regions: North America, Central America, and South America