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By America they mean the country "USA". Not Brazil or Mexico or any other part of America. Given the salary inequality between the USA and most of the other cou

By America they mean the country "USA". Not Brazil or Mexico or any other part of America. Given the salary inequality between the USA and most of the other countries in America it is easy to automatically imply that you only need to be in the USA to get rich in America.

juanito 10y ago
I know it's very confusing to a lot of people, but USA stands for United States of America. It's also the only country in the world that has America in its name.
- GFischer 10y ago
  Ironically it's not the only United States in America (but it is the only one with America in the name I believe) Mexico is the United States of Mexico, there also were United States of Colombia, United States of Venezuela (now renamed to simply Venezuela), etc... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico (Wikipedia doesn't show the official name in the title) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Colombia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Colombia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Venezuela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Venezuela
vthallam 10y ago
I know America is a continent and all that, but more often than not people refer America to USA.
- GFischer 10y ago
  Only in the U.S./English. If you refer to "America" in Spanish it's assumed you're referring to the continent, the state is commonly referred to as the United States or the United States of America. We actually call ourselves Americans here in Uruguay. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uso_de_la_palabra_americano https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uso_de_la_palabra_americano "En el uso tradicional a los naturales de América como continente. En un segundo término, a los ciudadanos de Estados Unidos de América, uso derivado de la influencia lingüística inglesa."
  - dgrealy 10y ago
    I checked the page source, and it turns out the entire article is written in English.
  - aninhumer 10y ago
    And if you refer to "Spain" in Spanish, people will be similarly confused. But we're not speaking Spanish.
- HugoDaniel 10y ago
  Yes i think that is common knowledge. But it is not a common thing in international economics news sites.
dgrealy 10y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. So insightful. Also definitely thanks for clarifying the total confusion about what is meant by "in America". I thought to myself, "Now wait just a minute. Do they mean the USA? Because all those other countries must feel offended if so." Also, I thought, "it's so true that the American economy is orders of magnitude stronger than other nations. Clearly this is because of an empire of oppression built upon the same small-minded chauvinism which leads Americans to refer to themselves as Americans."

juanito 10y ago

I know it's very confusing to a lot of people, but USA stands for United States of America. It's also the only country in the world that has America in its name.

GFischer 10y ago
Ironically it's not the only United States in America (but it is the only one with America in the name I believe) Mexico is the United States of Mexico, there also were United States of Colombia, United States of Venezuela (now renamed to simply Venezuela), etc... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico (Wikipedia doesn't show the official name in the title) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Colombia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Colombia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Venezuela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Venezuela

vthallam 10y ago

I know America is a continent and all that, but more often than not people refer America to USA.

GFischer 10y ago
Only in the U.S./English. If you refer to "America" in Spanish it's assumed you're referring to the continent, the state is commonly referred to as the United States or the United States of America. We actually call ourselves Americans here in Uruguay. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uso_de_la_palabra_americano https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uso_de_la_palabra_americano "En el uso tradicional a los naturales de América como continente. En un segundo término, a los ciudadanos de Estados Unidos de América, uso derivado de la influencia lingüística inglesa."
- dgrealy 10y ago
  I checked the page source, and it turns out the entire article is written in English.
- aninhumer 10y ago
  And if you refer to "Spain" in Spanish, people will be similarly confused. But we're not speaking Spanish.
HugoDaniel 10y ago
Yes i think that is common knowledge. But it is not a common thing in international economics news sites.

dgrealy 10y ago

Thanks for pointing that out. So insightful. Also definitely thanks for clarifying the total confusion about what is meant by "in America". I thought to myself, "Now wait just a minute. Do they mean the USA? Because all those other countries must feel offended if so." Also, I thought, "it's so true that the American economy is orders of magnitude stronger than other nations. Clearly this is because of an empire of oppression built upon the same small-minded chauvinism which leads Americans to refer to themselves as Americans."