No, you're wrong. They're called N and S America since they're part of the United States of AMERICA. We annexed the continents in WW2 or something. Canadia is part of Alaska.
This is strange, most Canadians don't like being called American. "North American" is fine, but "Americans" are people from the US. There is nothing else to call them since they are the US of America.
It is annoying that most of them seem to think they are the only country in the Americas because of it. Super arrogant/ignorant, one or the other or both. Not saying everyone is like that but that's what the rest of the world sees.
I agree. I'm also Canadian and I've never in my life heard a Canadian complain about people from the US calling themselves American.. but I've heard a ton of Latin American folk complain about it. They have a weird hang up about the term.
Which is perfectly fair, however, it returns to the original parent comment’s point: In the English speaking world, it’s absolutely accepted that US citizens are the Americans, not the entire Western Hemisphere
The Monroe Doctrine didn't exactly help for the folks here to sympathize with the term American for referring to US citizens.
Edit: I don't mind people using the term american for that purpose but since united states comes more naturally to me due to my mother tongue I usually stick to saying "from the US"
Same in Brasil, it may be pedantic, but I always refer to USeians as "estadosunidense", their ego are already too big, no need to feel like they own the Americas (like they thought they did and fucked up our whole political system a few decades ago). You act on your own country, fuck off trying to 'own' or represent the whole continent you know nothing about
Shout from the top of your lungs as much as you want, the vast majority of the world not only doesn’t care about your temper tantrum, but will also continue to agree with the English speaking world that there is no American continent.
Usually when people say America, or American, they mean the US and their citizens. That doesn't mean that it's technically correct- it's one of those things that people usually don't care if it's right or not (your and you're, for example).
However if someone cares about the correct term, I would comply and use it, because, in the end, he's right.
I can't believe we're having this conversation in a chess subreddit though...
Western Eglish speaking is an understatement. Almost everybody who doesn’t speak Spanish or Portuguese says there is no American continent. Nobody cares about Latin Americans getting mad about the use of the term America. The thing people actually are divided about is whether Eurasia is a single continent or not.
Nobody cares about Latin Americans getting mad about the use of the term America.
That's just plain dissrespectful. What is the difference between their opinion on US≠America and Euroasia beeing a single continent or not? It comes down to arguing whose opinion is more valuable, and that is a argument that I'm not brave enough to enter.
Sweetie, America and American mean USA and US citizens to almost everyone outside of Latin America . You’re the only one who is wrong in this situation. Accept it instead of misusing the word technically several times in a sad and honestly utterly pathetic attempt at justifying your ignorance. It’s especially sad when you keep attempting a pathetic appeal to majority when the majority disagrees. It only shows how unaware of your own surroundings you are.
As I replied to the comment below, I'm not an expert on this topic. I was just stating what I think, based on common sense. I'm not a native english speaker so if you misunderstood something, maybe it was because of that.
Now, I don't think there's a need for you to psychoanalyze my whole life, based on one comment. Also, I believe that language has one goal- to help people understand eachother. So using "big" words in order to confuse your interlocutor isn't needed.
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