Believe it or not, those two terms are used interchangably and somehow no one gets confused. A continent AND a country can both have the same name without the world ending.
I think to most of those people it’s like the US is trying to “steal” the name America from the rest of the continents, but it’s really only the Spanish speaking parts of the Americas that feel that way about it. But they can have it their way in their language, and it doesn’t detract from anything. It’s like getting pissy because some cultures count continents by separating Europe from Asia and others have Eurasia (without even getting started on Afro-Eurasia).
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USA borders.
“America” is a shortened name for “United States of America,” in addition to the name of the continent. It can be both, you know.
Just saying USA has less syllables and letters.
But we don’t have to like it
Edit: fine, I guess we’re obligated to like it.
Believe it or not, those two terms are used interchangably and somehow no one gets confused. A continent AND a country can both have the same name without the world ending.
Let me point you to this handy little guide:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36440098
I will never understand why y’all get such a pedantry hard on for this specific topic
I think to most of those people it’s like the US is trying to “steal” the name America from the rest of the continents, but it’s really only the Spanish speaking parts of the Americas that feel that way about it. But they can have it their way in their language, and it doesn’t detract from anything. It’s like getting pissy because some cultures count continents by separating Europe from Asia and others have Eurasia (without even getting started on Afro-Eurasia).
Separating Europe and Asia is just racism really.
Are you from the USA?
I never understand why USians get really pissed about them being called USians.
Honestly a better convention.
I think “America” implies a hierarchy, dominance, and soothes their egos though
Yup. They misappropriated a continent’s name to feel more important. Otherwise they would feel smaller than Australia presumably.