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U.S.A, not America, here in Brazil we haven’t any issue with Huawei
by rafaelreinert 6y ago
U.S.A, not America, here in Brazil we haven’t any issue with Huawei
- squires 6y agoUSA is commonly known as America, and the fact that some variant of this comment always surfaces when it's referred to as such won't change that.
- vinay427 6y agoThis again? I think your point is appropriate when speaking Spanish, Portuguese (EDIT: not Portuguese), etc. However, in common English (no, not just in the US) the word "America" more often refers to the USA. Languages don't use the same or derivative words for many other countries as well.
- theredbox 6y agoCan confirm. Eastern european here. America refers to the US of A. If we want to be explicit about the other america we say South America.
- TMWNN 6y agoNot even in Portuguese. "Americano" specifically means "someone from the United States". Spanish is the only major European language in which its local equivalent of "America/American" does not refer specifically to the USA.
- vinay427 6y agoThank you, apologies and I've edited my comment.
- rm445 6y agoThat's bad and wrong, you should think past your familiarity for a minute and logically not do it. This shouldn't be mixed up with the other common case which is often discussed, 'American' as the demonym for people and things from the USA. That isn't quite as bad (though it still annoys other people from elsewhere in the Americas) because it's using the name of the superset - Americans, from the USA, are also Americans, from the continent. Whereas, when "America" (the USA) does something, it doesn't necessarily mean all of America does it. The USA is a subset of America, not a superset or the only entry. Language isn't always logical, but if you won't draw the line at something so clearly backwards as using the whole continent's name for the actions of one country, you can only expect it will start an argument every time.
- echelon 6y agoI think you and your countrymen should reevaluate this stance. Huawei is an asset of a regime that tracks its citizens like it's 1984, spirits you away to jail (or death) if you make disparaging comments -- even if true --, locks Uyghurs away in prison/sex slavery/organ donation internment camps for "reeducation", steals Tibetan children, takes away territory from neighboring nations, builds naval bases and prevents fishing in an ocean they don't own, shuts off the water supply to Viet Nam and others, ... I'm not saying the US is perfect, but the CCP is downright scary. They're a risk to the freedoms we enjoy. I love China and its citizens, and I wish they were free.
- chrisco255 6y agoWe chose a really difficult country name to create an identity around. United States of America citizen just doesn't have the same ring to it as American does. Meanwhile, you know, we also stole Amazon as a word to mean something totally different than a river and region in Brazil.
- ardit33 6y agowut... amazon is a greek word, which is actually derived from a different older language (the hypothetical pelasgian, the original indigenous people in the balkans). So, yeah... you can say brazil borrowed that word from the greek language via latin, and the greeks themselves borrowed it from an extinct language... Am·a·zon /ˈaməˌzän,ˈaməzən/ Learn to pronounce Origin late Middle English: via Latin from Greek Amazōn, explained by the Greeks as ‘without a breast’ (as if from a- ‘without’ + mazos ‘breast’), referring to the fable that the Amazons cut off the right breast so as not to interfere with the use of a bow, but probably a folk etymology of an unknown foreign word.