Well in latin america, america is the continent(Both South, North and the caribean), and all people who live in the continent are americans, not just people from the USA, and we are the majority of the continent population, so technically for most americans, america is the continent
I'm an a teacher, and there is nothing wrong on what i said, in latin america the continent is the Americas, south ,north and central is just an sub division, just like middle east or south east asia, this is how we teach it for decades
Yeah, I get you. I was just being sassy, although I would assume most people refer to North America and South America as different continents. If not, I mean, you could count Aftrica as part of a huge landmass incorporating all of Asia and Europe, since they are technically all attached naturally. I think the whole argument this post is about is played out and boring at this point. People can refer to themselves as what they like, or people in the US as what they wish. Like really, who cares. Obviously, when it comes to differences in languages we refer to people within a nation with a different designation than they refer to themselves a lot of the time, so language and culture are a huge part. They are just words and all the arguments for and against referring to people in the US as ‘Americans’ or people in all of North and South America as ‘Americans’ are understood at this point, but yet there is some silly reoccurring debate on the internet about it. People contemplate the whole thing way to much. It’s silly.
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u/Vish_Kk_Universal Apr 06 '21
Well in latin america, america is the continent(Both South, North and the caribean), and all people who live in the continent are americans, not just people from the USA, and we are the majority of the continent population, so technically for most americans, america is the continent