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Title should say 2017

• HenryBemis 7y ago
  Title should also say "Citizens/inhabitants of the United States of America". America is a continent (also Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania - listed in alphabetical order)(not counting the N/S Poles). Americans are the people who live in said continent. I also think we gave the website the HN-kiss-of-death :)
  • asaph 7y ago
    No reasonable person interprets "America" to mean the "continent of America". In fact, there is no continent called "America". There is only "North America" and "South America", which are 2 distinctly different continents. And within North America, which contains the US, Canada and Mexico, neither people in Canada, nor Mexico consider themselves to be "American" or within "America".
    • DanBC 7y ago
      > In fact there is no continent called "America". There is only "North America" and "South America", which are 2 distinctly different continents. ...in English.
      • asaph 7y ago
        Fine. But that's the language of this article and this conversation thread. No reasonable person would assume some other language is relevant in this conversation.
        • DanBC 7y ago
          HN has an international audience and the subtleties of naming the country vs the continent can be easy to miss.