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[European who only read the title] Isn't Canada already in America?
by fguerraz 4y ago
[European who only read the title]
Isn't Canada already in America?
- junofan 4y agoI believe it’s in North America.
- bombcar 4y agoStrange religion ;) But people refer to the USA as “America” even though Canada and Mexico are also in “North America” and all the countries in South America exist also. Even so, nobody would refer to someone from those countries as “American”.
- School-Cotton 4y ago> Even so, nobody would refer to someone from those countries as “American”. Maybe not in English, but it would be quite normal to do so in some other languages.
- WalterBright 4y agoWhether "America" refers to the continent or the United States depends on the context.
- School-Cotton 4y agoThe set of continents is arbitrary. Some cultures (arbitrarily) recognize North America and South America as separate continents, whereas some others consider them to be one continent, called America. Among many of the cultures that recognize two continents, the term “America” has drifted in meaning over time to colloquially refer to the USA. That is the sense in which “America” was meant in this headline.
- sgjohnson 4y ago> the term “America” has drifted in meaning over time to colloquially refer to the USA. Only in English speaking and non-American countries. All of the Spanish speaking American countries are happy to call what everyone else calls "americans" "united-stateans", i.e. "estadounidense" in Spanish. Because of course it's stupid to call gringos "american", when the entire continent is called America. This is also happening to Europe, in a lesser extent (for 2 reasons, first of which is that the EU isn't a country, and the 2nd is that most of European countries are in the EU). "European" is more often used to refer to an inhabitant of the European Union than it's used to refer to an inhabitant of Europe, the continent.
- School-Cotton 4y agoThe article is about Canada, which is (mostly) an English-speaking country.
- slowmovintarget 4y agoTo quote Homer Simpson "Pfft... Canada is just America Jr." More seriously, if you weren't joking, Canada is in North America, the continent. America, the country, is the informal name of the United States of America.
- sonicggg 4y agoThere are two separate continents: "North America" and "South America", which are more separate than Asia is to Europe. Sometimes people refer to them as "The Americas", in plural.