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Subject: America is a continent not a country

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There's North America, and South America. There isn't a continent just called America.

  • 12.14.2012 4:22 PM PDT

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Posted by: theHurtfulTurkey
North America is a continent, and South America is a continent, but America is an abbreviation of The United States of America.

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  • 12.14.2012 4:23 PM PDT

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America isn't an abbreviation of the US. Despite it popularly getting used as one. Think about it, United States of America. The US is a group of states that are united inside America.

  • 12.14.2012 4:23 PM PDT

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No. America refers to the Untied Stated of America and not Canada or Mexico.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas





Key word in that article Americas not America. America=USA. Americas =North America.

[Edited on 12.14.2012 4:25 PM PST]

  • 12.14.2012 4:23 PM PDT

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Posted by: carby21
America isn't an abbreviation of the US. Despite it popularly getting used as one. Think about it, United States of America. The US is a group of states that are united inside America.


Hawaii would like a word.

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  • 12.14.2012 4:26 PM PDT

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The article says it is also called America in the first paragraph....
"The Americas (or America) are lands in the Western Hemisphere that are also known as the New World."

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Posted by: BestSpartan117

Posted by: The User 102
No. America refers to the Untied Stated of America and not Canada or Mexico.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas





Key word in that article Americas not America. America=USA. Americas =North America.


[Edited on 12.14.2012 4:30 PM PST]

  • 12.14.2012 4:27 PM PDT
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It just so happens that the USA was the only independent country in the Western hemisphere in 1776 (save Native American nations that had yet to be conquered) and those people got used to calling themselves 'Americans' while the people in Spanish colonies still said they were 'Spanish', or the Canadians said they were British/French. Taking that into account, a US citizen IS an American, but the USA is not America itself. I've lived in Puerto Rico my whole life, due to our political status and history, we don't call ourselves 'Americans' because, culturally, we are not people of the United States of America and thus we don't believe we are part of that national identity. If Mexicans, Cubans, Canadians, and Brazilians called themselves 'Americans', although correct, it just doesn't work culturally because of the different histories.

  • 12.14.2012 4:31 PM PDT

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Posted by: BestSpartan117
The article says it is also called America in the first paragraph....
Posted by: The User 102

Posted by: BestSpartan117

Posted by: The User 102
No. America refers to the Untied Stated of America and not Canada or Mexico.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas





Key word in that article Americas not America. America=USA. Americas =North America.
You wanna know why the USA calls itself "America" cause we won the last century, the British won the century before that, then the Spanish and Portuguese centuries before the British.

As cliche as it is "history is written by the victor."

  • 12.14.2012 4:32 PM PDT
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Soooo, America isnt a country?

And Australia isnt either because its a continent too.
/sarcasm

  • 12.14.2012 4:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: seven blind mice
Soooo, America isnt a country?

And Australia isnt either because its a continent too.
/sarcasm

  • 12.14.2012 4:35 PM PDT

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