• Torres@lemmy.world
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    As someone who was born in South America, it still kind of bothers me when people calls the US America, as if it was the only country in the whole continent :/
    In this case I also thought he meant South America at first, but it’s pretty obvious that he means the US

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      I’m from Europe and I also thought he meant South America, before I finished reading the context.

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        I know, it’s more a subconscious thing for me. Also the fact that for whatever reason in many countries of south america we consider north and south america a single continent, so the word “America” would generally refer to the whole continent.

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          What was the deleted comment above you?

          • Torres@lemmy.world
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            That when refering to the whole continent, english speaking people use “the Americas”, and “America” always refers to the US (in english)

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    on one hand, haha crypto clown

    on the other hand, as someone who lives in South America, yeah it’s kind of fucking annoying how people refer the the US as “America”