>If people mean the EU or Western Europe when they say "Europe" then that's fine Yep, that's what I refer to. I imagine most Americans do as well. From my pers

>If people mean the EU or Western Europe when they say "Europe" then that's fine Yep, that's what I refer to. I imagine most Americans do as well. From my perspective, I don't expect Europeans to automatically include considerations of Alaska. >it's arguably similar to people from Europe only regarding the US as the two coasts! A well-known term in the USA is "fly-over country." That refers to all the land between the two coasts. Our own "coasties" already view the rest of the country as another world. We already do that to ourseleves!