But it is. Go sample a group of people and ask them to point to America on a globe or map. They're not going to reference continents. They are going to reference our country.
If the sample Group is from Spain, Portugal, Southern America in general, they would tell you that America is a continent. It really depends country of Origin of the sampled group.The United States of America is not a continent, its a country in the continent of America. The Citizens of any part of the American Continet are as American as any North American from Canada or The United States
Most people would be correct. The few who believe America is a continent would be incorrect.
So only the English speaking nation would be correct? The rest of the word is wrong just because the English speaking nations said so? That is an excelent example of Ethnocentrism.
That's the way it's thought of by all rational people.
So the English speaking Nations are the only rational Nations in the world? All others are wrong just because they dont see it the same way?
Other parts of the world can think the Earth is flat and the Moon is made of green cheese. It doesn't make it so.
And that is because the reality of the moon and the spherical Earth is outside of the human domain, the geographical definition of continets is not. So the Earth is not flat even if you Belive it is and continents can have more than one definition.
When 2 different nations cannot agree on a definition of something, who would be right, who would be wrong and why?
You can make up any definition you want. It doesn't change the fact that America is a nation and not a continent.
Well, all definitions of continent are actually made up by someone in the end for whatever reason. There are 4 ways Continents can be define and none of them are wrong or right. It really dependes on where you were born and what Language you speak/read.
Heres the link again, it explains the different variations very well.
https://www.worldometers.info/geography/continents/
Is Mexican a "layman's" term? How about Canadian?
No, because Mexico is not a Continent, same goes with Canadians. Both Mexicans and Canadians are Americans too. In fact, the Spanish term for a U.S Citizen is
Estadounidense, not
Americano. In the Royal Academy of Spanish language, wich is on Spain, literally says that the
Americano term should not be use to identify citizens from the United States alone, that use is incorrect in the Spanish language.
Sorry but just about nobody thinks that way.
Heres a quote from the link posted earlier;
There are two variations of the six-continent model:
- the first six-continent model (used mostly in France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Greece, and Latin America) groups together North America+South America into the single continent "America" (or "Americas").
- the other six-continent model (mostly used in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Japan) combines together Europe + Asia into the single continent "Eurasia"
Because, of course, Africa is a continent while America is not.
America is a continent to a bunch of others countries, so maybe to you is not, but to a lot of people it is and they are not wrong either.
Calling the United States of America, America; implies that north and south America are part of the United States. North and South America are not part of the United States, the United states is part of it, thats why its the United States OF America, not American United States.
What does it say when you look in a Mexican, Guatemalan, or Chilean passport under nationality?
Honestly, no idea. Never seen one. But in the U.S. one does not says American.
No, I refered to an individual. A Uruguayan. The insistence that America is not a country but rather two continents and a land bridge or one large continent is nothing more than a political power play. Usually promoted by leftists/communists.
Asumming that they promote leftists/communist ideas is what i meant to Point out, theres a general perception that everything below the U.S. is a communist sinkhole and that is not true at all.
No, it is some people from Y nations that have an inferiority complex and need to frame the issue in a negative light when it is not the case.
Has nothing to do with inferiority complex, the total opposite its a supperiority complex. Some Nations think they can do anything they want because they have a “better” culture. 1930’s Germany with Hitler is a good example of this, he thought only Aryans should walk on the planet because they thought they were better than other just because. They even came up with bogus science to try and prove it. When you have those ideas and firepower, is like throwing gas into a fire.
Because it is human nature.
Empathy is also in the human nature. No culture is better than another, every culture has a reason to do the things they do in a certain way. Why the United States is a gun loving culture? Because guns gave the U.S. its freedom in 1776. Maybe another culture has no interes in firearms at all and is not “less” of a culture because of it.
"Countries" invaded other "countries" for the purpose of natural resource control, land acquisition, enslavement, etc.
True, but at some Point they had all the resources they needed and went all out just because they wanted more power, Napoleon, Hitler, The soviets just to name a few
The root of racism is tribalism which is human nature. We should appreciate how little racism actually exists considering that fact.
I personally feel that Racism is not in the human nature. We are pushed to it sometime unconsciously for whatever reasons. At first money was the obvious reasons, the whole Greek, Egyptian and Roman civilizations ran on slaves, but now in democratic contries, I have no idea. little or a lot Racism is wrong.
I appreciate your service. We can agree to disagree. This conversation isn't personal.
Thanks, no prob, i dont take internet stuff personal, is not 2001 anymore lol
I have no problem Calling the U.S. Citizen Americans, because they are by definition just like a Brazilian, cuban, mexican etc., But the Country itself is Not just America, its the United States of America.
