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I understood America to be the name of the continent (i.e. The Americas) and "United States of America" to be the name of a country. What term would you use to
by ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
I understood America to be the name of the continent (i.e. The Americas) and "United States of America" to be the name of a country. What term would you use to refer to residents of North America or residents of both North and South America?
("United States of America" implies the existence of other, non-united states of America, which I interpret as all the other countries within the America continent)
- drstewart 3y ago>What term would you use to refer to residents of North America or residents of both North and South America? North Americans or North and South Americans This is also a concept people reference much, much less often than residents of America the country.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoThat leads to the strange paradox of South Americans not being American
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoNot strange at all in context.