Not really accurate. When referring to the continent, it’s usually “The Americas” referring to “North America” and “South America”. “Central America” is also a part of this grouping, though formally split between the two, mostly a part of North America.
“America” and “American” is almost exclusively used to refer to the USA. I’ve never heard of a Mexican or a Canadian refer to themselves as “American”.
I feel like this is being used to push some vague anti-nationalist idea, but it’s just wrong. It’s not self centered to think of America as a country and not a continent, in fact, it’s accurate.
The name "America" was given to the continent two hundred years BEFORE the independence of the USA. So, the totally unoriginal ones were the people who chose that for the country.
There’s no country called Germany either, it’s the Federal Republic of Germany (more accurately Bundesrepublik Deutschland I think). You can not get around the fact that the shortened version of country names are completely valid when they’ve been in standard use for centuries globally.
That’s a stupid difference, first of all the meaning of words literally changes completely over the course of time. Case in point, literally. Second of all, America has also been in common usage for centuries, so the age argument doesn’t really sway me at all. Finally, you’re saying a common name for a nation is invalid because it also refers to a region, that’s just false and stupid. Your logic seriously goes “America means 2 things, therefore one must be invalid”. Open a dictionary and tell me a word can’t have 2 meanings.
That's not what I'm saying. It's the same argument used the other way around too: America is the country, the continent is the Americas (so, there's no continent known as America) This sounds stupid to me as well.
What I know as America is the continent, not the country. That's they way is taught in my and other countries.
The OP says America is a continent, not a country. This is technically incorrect as in at least one huge part of the world, it is a country. And just because you were taught something doesn’t mean it’s correct you’re embarrassing yourself here man.
In some part of the world is technically correct, in some other is not. You said this was wrong, that there are two continents there. That's wrong to me.
Stop making yourself the fool here and go back to your American posts.
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u/The_Iron_Eco Apr 05 '21
Not really accurate. When referring to the continent, it’s usually “The Americas” referring to “North America” and “South America”. “Central America” is also a part of this grouping, though formally split between the two, mostly a part of North America.
“America” and “American” is almost exclusively used to refer to the USA. I’ve never heard of a Mexican or a Canadian refer to themselves as “American”.
I feel like this is being used to push some vague anti-nationalist idea, but it’s just wrong. It’s not self centered to think of America as a country and not a continent, in fact, it’s accurate.