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Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• percent@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Most English-speaking countries teach the seven-continent model. There is no place named “America,” so when native English speakers omit “The United States of” for brevity, other native English speakers understand that they’re referring to the USA.

  It seems to cause some confusion with cultures that are taught the six-continent model (in which there is a continent called “America”). I would guess that it’s because a lot of people are unaware of these cultural differences.

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  • Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Its all just America. America is named after Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), an Italian explorer and cartographer. His name wasn’t “North America” … so you all are wrong. It is what it is.

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    • percent@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh that was centuries ago. In the US, we’ve even divided states in a similar manner over the years. The Province of Carolina became North Carolina and South Carolina. Dakota Territory -> North and South Dakota. Virginia and… West Virginia (not sure why no “East Virginia”).

      I suppose you can say it’s “wrong” on the Internet, but if you tried the six-continent model on a school test in an English-speaking country, it would be marked as incorrect.

      There are also five- and I think even four- continent models I’m some cultures. The thought of any of them being “wrong” is really interesting, to me. Personally, I’ve never really thought about any of them as “right” or “wrong”, just cultural differences.

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      • Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The point is moot either way. Canada and the USA are on the exact same continent. Say American or say North American … the US and Canada are the same.

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• LeFantome@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There is no continent called America.

  However, there is a country that hundreds of millions of people identify as “America”.

  Be smarter.

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  • Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    HAH HAH HAH heh. What continent is Mexico on? What continent is the USA on? Hint: United States of … Are you smarter than a 3rd grader? Fucking lame ass trolls.

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    • Glide@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Imagine spending your time being intentionally obtuse about the colloquial understanding of “America” and then calling other people “lame ass trolls.” C’mon man. Be better.

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      • Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Imagine having nothing better to do than argue about a definition that has 5-6 different ways to interpret it. Only MAGA and ther ilk have the inability to grasp that there are other countries that can be labeled “American”.

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• LeFantome@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You don’t like to be publicly respected for your informed opinions?

  Why not?

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Might be meant to explain that folks say “American” to mean people from the United States more often than the American continents. Especially since it’s for teaching people a different language.

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  • Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yea, but we troll MAGA by telling them that Mexicans and Canadians are Americans … it breaks them.

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