You forgot to insert the obligatory national sentence ender: “Sorry”.
You’ll have to be sent off for mandatory re-Caneducation training. Please be sure to arrive wearing your standard issue plaid shirt, and toque. Tim Hortons coffee will be served and there is a 3 three drink minimum.
“America” as a single entity, devoid of qualifiers, is the entirety of North and South America. A massive and diverse swath of Earth with very little in common. I don’t see how that’s a useful definition, and most English-speakers have agreed so “America” instead is shorthand for the giant country with “America” in its name.
We use descriptors because they help. “The Americas” is the whole thing, “North America” is everything from Panama to Canada plus some distant colony islands because this is politics not tectonics.
There is only one country in the Americas that has America in the title. Everyone is aware of the continents, but only pompous douchers bring up the “technically, Canada and Mexico are American too” nonsense.
What if instead of the others being pompous douchers, some people are too self-centred (or nationalists, or imperialists ?) to realize that others may not understand or appreciate how some country-men are monopolizing the demonym of their continent. It seems South Africans are succeeding in not doing that just fine.
Yep that all sounds super douchey. 99% of people who know the United States and the American continents, will know exactly where you are talking about if you say America. Sorry that displeased you in all your eccentricities and fancy words, but thems the breaks.
Yeah, that’s how we feel, until we actually go to America and interact with Americans. There is a stark difference between the cultures that isn’t actually apparent until it’s met face to face.
Americans are a unique combination of arrogant, loud, and stupid. Not all of them of course, but it’s a large enough amount that you notice a difference when you cross the border.
I’m Canadian, and I get super offended when foreigners assume I’m from America.
You forgot to insert the obligatory national sentence ender: “Sorry”.
You’ll have to be sent off for mandatory re-Caneducation training. Please be sure to arrive wearing your standard issue plaid shirt, and toque. Tim Hortons coffee will be served and there is a 3 three drink minimum.
Sorry.
Edit: grammer/clarification.
As a Vermonter, I also get offended when people think I’m from America.
They are correct and I’m not happy about that fact.
Yeah, no need to be reminded all the time
But, that’s factual
People born in mexico are also from American(central america).
*North America
Depends on the culture, some consider America as a single entity. North Americans seem to prefer to consider themselves as a whole continent.
“America” as a single entity, devoid of qualifiers, is the entirety of North and South America. A massive and diverse swath of Earth with very little in common. I don’t see how that’s a useful definition, and most English-speakers have agreed so “America” instead is shorthand for the giant country with “America” in its name.
We use descriptors because they help. “The Americas” is the whole thing, “North America” is everything from Panama to Canada plus some distant colony islands because this is politics not tectonics.
That’s the common use in Latin cultures. That’s why I wanted to provide this different point of view.
There is only one country in the Americas that has America in the title. Everyone is aware of the continents, but only pompous douchers bring up the “technically, Canada and Mexico are American too” nonsense.
What if instead of the others being pompous douchers, some people are too self-centred (or nationalists, or imperialists ?) to realize that others may not understand or appreciate how some country-men are monopolizing the demonym of their continent. It seems South Africans are succeeding in not doing that just fine.
Yep that all sounds super douchey. 99% of people who know the United States and the American continents, will know exactly where you are talking about if you say America. Sorry that displeased you in all your eccentricities and fancy words, but thems the breaks.
What a tool.
Yep
Canada is Diet America. Can you blame us?
Yeah, that’s how we feel, until we actually go to America and interact with Americans. There is a stark difference between the cultures that isn’t actually apparent until it’s met face to face.
Americans are a unique combination of arrogant, loud, and stupid. Not all of them of course, but it’s a large enough amount that you notice a difference when you cross the border.
Yes because that’s where all the French people ended up
As an American, you should. We’re willfully toxic garbage all the way down.