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>BBC has United States related stories But BBC also has stories with naked "America" in the title with no prefixes which is about the USA: https://www.bbc.co.

by jasode 3y ago

>BBC has United States related stories But BBC also has stories with naked "America" in the title with no prefixes which is about the USA: https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=america https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=america (E.g. BBC's story of "America Goes to War" doesn't mean Argentina, Chile, and Costa Rica are also going to war. BBC is talking about the USA.) >America is a geographic area with a North, South, and Central. That is true but you're not taking into account 2 different usages of "America": - (1) "America" the geography, the continent, - (2) "America" the country : e.g. Hawaii is in America even though it's an island in the Pacific Ocean instead of the American continent. Likewise, why do people who mention "Asia" are talking about China/Japan/Taiwan and exclude Russia?!? Because that's a different usage of "Asia" that doesn't perfectly map to geography of Asian continent.

defrost 3y ago
> But BBC also has stories with naked "America" in the title with no prefixes which is about the USA: > https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=america https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=america Including travelling the length of the Americas, and stories from South America. The point being that the BBC and other countries only use the term after qualifying that they specifically mean the USofA or other parts of the Americas. > Hawaii is in America even though it's in the Pacific Ocean instead of the American continent. Who says that though? I'm 60, well educated and would say that Hawaii is a state of the USofA, as I've done all my life and as the majority of people I know would do so. > Likewise, why do people who mention "Asia" are talking about China/Japan/Taiwan and exclude Russia?!? Depends upon the people and the context of the discussion - I was in the asian portion of Russia when I was ground truthing soviet era maps against the "new" global WGS84 datum. Poltically Russia tends to be associatied with Europe | East Europe | other variations due to Moscow being the capital. If you're in Vietnam you're often dealing with Russians out of Vladivostok on the edge of the sea of Japan.
- jasode 3y ago
  >The point being that the BBC and other countries only use the term after qualifying that they specifically mean the USofA or other parts of the Americas. That is the opposite of what actually happens. Outside of the USA, when people on the street refer to "America" with no prefix of "North-"/"South-"/"Central-", they're talking about the USA without even qualifying that they're equating "no-prefix-America" = "USA". That's just what most non-Americans do. If you go to India and ask a random stranger, "Would you like to visit America?", it's already assumed that the question is about the USA. >Who says that though? People living in Hawaii naturally say that. In Hawaii, it's natural in casual conversation to say "living in America" rather than "living in the USA". Example of "As Hawaii residents, we have both the privilege of living in America, with all the perks of not actually living in the continental states." -- from: https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/hawaii/privileges-hi/ https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/hawaii/privileges-hi/
- vel0city 3y ago
  So describe the citizenship of the people on Hawaii. Would you say they are "United-States-of-Americans" or just say "Americans"?

by jasode 3y ago

defrost 3y ago

> But BBC also has stories with naked "America" in the title with no prefixes which is about the USA: > https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=america https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=america Including travelling the length of the Americas, and stories from South America. The point being that the BBC and other countries only use the term after qualifying that they specifically mean the USofA or other parts of the Americas. > Hawaii is in America even though it's in the Pacific Ocean instead of the American continent. Who says that though? I'm 60, well educated and would say that Hawaii is a state of the USofA, as I've done all my life and as the majority of people I know would do so. > Likewise, why do people who mention "Asia" are talking about China/Japan/Taiwan and exclude Russia?!? Depends upon the people and the context of the discussion - I was in the asian portion of Russia when I was ground truthing soviet era maps against the "new" global WGS84 datum. Poltically Russia tends to be associatied with Europe | East Europe | other variations due to Moscow being the capital. If you're in Vietnam you're often dealing with Russians out of Vladivostok on the edge of the sea of Japan.

jasode 3y ago
>The point being that the BBC and other countries only use the term after qualifying that they specifically mean the USofA or other parts of the Americas. That is the opposite of what actually happens. Outside of the USA, when people on the street refer to "America" with no prefix of "North-"/"South-"/"Central-", they're talking about the USA without even qualifying that they're equating "no-prefix-America" = "USA". That's just what most non-Americans do. If you go to India and ask a random stranger, "Would you like to visit America?", it's already assumed that the question is about the USA. >Who says that though? People living in Hawaii naturally say that. In Hawaii, it's natural in casual conversation to say "living in America" rather than "living in the USA". Example of "As Hawaii residents, we have both the privilege of living in America, with all the perks of not actually living in the continental states." -- from: https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/hawaii/privileges-hi/ https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/hawaii/privileges-hi/
vel0city 3y ago
So describe the citizenship of the people on Hawaii. Would you say they are "United-States-of-Americans" or just say "Americans"?