The average American knows that Canada is in North America, as does the average Canadian, the average Englishman, and the average Australian. The average non‐A

The average American knows that Canada is in North America, as does the average Canadian, the average Englishman, and the average Australian. The average non‐American is from outside the Anglosphere, and so may be from a culture that considers North America and South America to be a single continent. But continents don’t have an objective definition, only a cultural one, and in the language and culture of the Anglosphere the Americas are distinct continents, America is a country, and Americans are that country’s people. I’ve never met a Canadian who clamored to be called an American. (Except naturalized citizens!)