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In English, “America” virtually always refers to the USA, not to North America or the Americas. It would be strange for a Canadian to identify as American or living in America (unless they were speaking another language where the convention is different).
The 'United States' is the form of the nation. 'America' is the name.
I don't understand why people insist on quibbling about this. New York is both a city and a state. But by far the most common usage is to refer to the city.
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People "quibble" about it because most of the American continent uses America to refer to the continent, not the United States. But I know education in the US is lacking and people there think nobody else matters, so I get why you would think this way.
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There are different languages with different conventions. Spanish works differently but in English we typically don't think of one continent called "America", we think of two continents called North America and South America.
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We know, and it is 100% due to US imperialist mindset. They are the only ones who matter, after all.
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I'm from Canada and we don't identify as "American". If you refer to a Canadian as that, they will be confused.
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And I'm from LATAM and both Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries refer to America as a continent. But we get English speaking people telling us how "wrong" we are for not following imperialist conventions.
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That's how you interpreted my post when I said "there are different languages with different conventions"?
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Of course the accepted convention being of the imperial minority rather than the majority of the people living in the American Continent is irrelevant. Nice. You guys are just an appendage of the US and it shows, same talking points.
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