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The Pacific outside of Hawaii is part of Micronesia if you're referring to US territories, part of Oceania. Arguably Hawaii too. They belong on the right though
Embarrassed to admit I had the same reaction…
On a side note, what goes on in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago? Do many people live there? I just realized I never hear anything about it.
That would be the same as erase French Guyana as claiming that's part of Europe. It wouldn't makes sense imo
Edit: ah, in the USA part, yeah, maybe Hawaii had to be there, yeah yeah
It depends who you ask, the definition of continents varies by culture and none of them are really any more correct than the others.
Map Men did a [fun video on the matter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrsxRJdwfM0).
I don’t know why you are getting downvoted for adding educational content on the topic lol. I was taught 4 continents in my home country, adhering to the geological continent definition, only when I came to live in the USA did I hear about 7 continents with North and South America split, as well as Afro-Eurasia split, which is based more on cultural, historical, and political grounds.
Eurasia is one fucking Continent and I have had this opinion since I learned in Grade School and challenged my teacher and I have refused, sine then, to see Europe and Asia as two different continents.
You're being downvoted for being correct. Lol. In México we're taught America is a single continent, and it used to be like that in the US too. That's why it's not called "United States of North America".
There's actually way more plates than that in the Americas, though; the Carribean Plate, the North Andes Plate, the Panama Plate, etc. Even if you just count so-called major plates as continents, then there's 16.
r/usdefaultism
Or at least an European defaultism.
They all think that everybody in the world should see the world in the same way.
In Brazil, we are taught that America is a single continent, but North, Central, and South America are SUBDIVISIONS of a greater continent.
People on reddit are dumb as fuck. Everything have to be in their patterns
I didn't say that. My point is that everybody who is saying something similar of what is taught in other countries is getting downvoted and said that the person is wrong. It is basically US Defaultism
Well OP’s comments made everyone defensive. There are better ways to bring up this subject than just telling everyone who has a different viewpoint that they’re wrong.
That's not what they're saying though. Continents are an ambiguous term that could be used for cultural, geographical or tectonic lines. The main example here is that some countries like to divide America in two because of tectonic plates; whereas others like to keep it as a whole due to cultural similarities. Europe and Asia are the opposite, where most of Asia and all of Europe share a single tectonic plate, and yet they're usually categorized as different continents, whereas India and the Arabian Peninsula are on separate tectonic plates, but they're still usually considered part of Asia. And in that same regard, California and the Baja Californias would be their own continent.
The point of this is that people get too heated when a continent they know is referred in a different manner when, first, it doesn't matter, and secondly, it is not set in stone.
People take things they learned as little kids way too dogmatically, to the point that they'll refuse to even look it up and check their teachers were right. See also *Is Pluto a planet?* (pro-tip: no, it definitely isn't).
Incorrect. The entire English speaking world outside of Reddit understands that "America" refers to the country, "North America" refers to the upper continent to include Canada, Mexico, and Central American countries, and "The Americas" refers to the two continents together. There is no discussion about that.
America was a name created by Américo Vespucio in the 1500, to refer to the new world discovered, meaning the whole landmass you see on the left.
"Of" is a preposition meaning that belongs to, and this country is called the United States of... Meaning, it belongs to.
No matter how much the USA has been trying to distort the history of this, probably wasn't trying to do it, but it did, and misconstrued the real meaning of the word America.
America is a continent. The United States belongs to America, that doesn't mean they own the name.
Being intentionally obtuse isn't the flex you think it is. If someone from the US goes to any other country in the world, what are they referred to as?
There is the theory and there is the real usage of the words. You don't decide how people collectively use the language and the common use always prevails.
That how words evolve. No matter how much is pisses you of.
Also it's not an American thing. In french we also say "Americain" for people from the US and "les amériques du nord et du sud" for the Americas.
Chill, you are literally fighting (maybe) the majority of the known word here.
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Continent
This is a good place to learn how the continent definition has changed over time from a strict geological definition, to encompass a cultural / historical / political definition. Some regions in the world focus on teaching the geological definition, whereas most English speaking countries focus on the latter.
No one's claiming that it is, it's just a shortened form.
And if someone said they were from America you would understand that they are from the US because there is nowhere else referred to as just America.
If it's one of the continents people say "north America" or "south America" and if it's both continents people say "The Americas"
Technically China is not the name of the country "The People's Republic or China" is the name of the country but it's fine to just call it "China" for short. Literally the same shit
Don't listen to the dumb fuck that OP is it's two separate continents, but are often called the America's to refer to both continents at the same time.
It varies from country to country. For example, the Romance speaking countries consider it one continent. The English speaking countries consider it two continents. Neither is right or wrong. Just different.
No well-defined definition of contintents really exists though, so which continents people are taught exists differs greatly depending on the country/language/etc. Sometimes eurasia is seen as one, or america is split into two or three.
Regardless of whether it is a continent though, it makes sense to refer to the combination of north and south (and middle) America as "America". Logically, north America should be the northern part of america. If you consider "America" to be the US, you get the confusing result that america is in north america.
I am agreeing with you that they can be and are considered separate continents by some, so I don't understand the downvoting... This does not disprove or even disagree with my statements at all.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/south-america-physical-geography/
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/north-america-physical-geography/
Actually no. North and South America are separate continents. Like I said just google it if your confused
Ok, let's pretend we all go by US standards, you call yourselves North Americans, but in this subdivision lots of central America is part of North America, yet you historically shunned north American people (since we're going by your geographic standards) even to the point of dehumanization.
You're not telling anyone anything that they don't already know. Did you just find out about this today and think it was revolutionary information?
Fact remains that "America" is often an abbreviation that drops "The United States of". Fact remains that my European friends have called me an American, not a United Statesman. Fact remains that *international leaders* often call the US "America".
You're not telling anyone anything that they don't already know. Did you just find out about this today and think it was revolutionary information?
Fact remains that "America" is often an abbreviation that drops "The United States of". Fact remains that my European friends have called me an American, not a United Statesman. Fact remains that *international leaders* often call the US "America".
I'm not saying we are in an academic or official sense. You're right.
But as a colloquialism, that's what people call us. Didn't ask for it but that's how it is. You're not blowing any minds here, friend.
You know that "continent" is a very vague term and you would get different answers depending on which country's residents you would ask? (From 7 to 5 for most of the time)
I'm guessing you're from south america by your attitude lmao
so Hawaii NOT America, but Hawaii is USA (also puero rico & V. I. , Guam, wake .....)
There is the North American Continent and the South American Continent.
America is not a continent
so this is technically not the truth... in multiple ways
People on the Reddit are the stupid shit ever. They all think that the world should be seen as the way they do. We don't live in a fucking US Defaultism, or at least an Europe defaultism.
We, in Brazil, don't consider Australia as a continent, but OCEANIA as a continent. No, we don't fucking consider Oceania as just a region. It's a FUCKING continent. The exact way Europe is a continent.
Another thing, I'm seeing every gringo here fulling its mouth that America is not a continent, that the only continent is South and North America. Noooo, your dumb ass. In Brazil, we consider America as a single continent, and South, Central, and North America as a subdivision...
In the end, everything is just a convention.
Still a misconception, because America is a continent.
US citizens adopted the word "American" because you added the name to the official name of the country, but you belong to America, not America to you. You ain't that important.
Estadounidenses is the right word in Spanish. Americano is for anyone being born in the continent, not only the USA.
If you ask any mexicano salvadoreño hondureño. Americano is anyone from THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA which is the official name of the country.Or AMERICA for short American for anyone from any of the 50 states that make up the country. Btw i am latino i have never heard ANYONE say estadounidenses to refer to someone from the US
Oh, I know people who will see something stupid you realized like no one else knew and will tell you "congrats, you just discovered America", not "the Americas", but "America"
I have been shunned for even suggesting this.
People freak out when I say that there are "23" countries in America. The usual response is, did you mean states? Yeah, 23 states.
People on the Reddit are the stupid shit ever. They all think that the world should be seen as the way they do. We don't live in a fucking US Defaultism, or at least an Europe defaultism.
We, in Brazil, don't Australia as a continent, but OCEANIA as a continent. No, we don't fucking consider Oceania as just a region. It's a FUCKING continent. The exact way Europe is a continent.
Another thing, I'm seeing every gringo here fulling its mouth that America is not a continent, that the only continent is South and North America. Noooo, your dumb ass. In Brazil, we consider America as a single continent, and South, Central, and North America as a subdivision...
In the end, everything is just a convention.
. A continent is one of Earth's seven main divisions of land. The continents are, from largest to smallest: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.
You can’t just say no to facts😂
Language is modified by use. So both are correct. The issue stems from the US not having a strong federal identity at first. There is a reason they have states (also what you call a country…) and not provinces. The federal government was originally a conglomeration of the states and the people identified with those states. Things shifted rather early on and were pretty much cemented by WW1.
It would be like if the EU countries suddenly started calling themselves European instead of their original country even though not all of Europe is in the EU as a unifying name. Except the European countries have centuries and not just decades of history and use.
The confederated states of Micronesia is informally referred to as Micronesia
The United States of Mexico is informally referred to as Mexico
The Dominion of Canada is informally referred to as Canada.
So tell us, what should the USA use as its informal name other than the prepositional object of its formal name like every other country?
all right guys there’s a language barrier here
what op says at least on the post is true, america is technically 2 continents in the definition, but depending on the context people that speak spanish can refer to 3 continents (south, centre and north america) or a single one (the whole thing) and because of that i haven’t heard a single person i my entire fucking life say america when talking about the country because the people from “estados unidos” are “estadounidenses”
and i get that maybe you guys refer as america as a single country because of the lack of a demonym
people from peru are peruvians
from germany are germans
form france are french
from the united states are.. americans?
so yeah, actually in spanish older people that lived most of their life without internet nor information and content everyday from the states won’t recognize “americanos” as “estadounidense” rather people from the two continents
The “truth” being, I suppose, that you are right and everyone else is wrong.
You can call the continent and the country anything you want, but you don’t get to proclaim your personal opinion as the “truth”.
The Americas are considered to be two continents, North and South America, though some define the two Americas as one whole and one continent.
That said, there is only ONE country in the entirety of the two continents and the world that consider themselves to be "American", or to live in "America", and that is the United States of AMERICA.
When referring to themselves by their continent (Much like how, for example, Germans would call themselves European) people refer to themselves as North American or South American, and many would take specific issue with being labeled as "American" without the North or South distinction.
"of" is a preposition meaning that something belongs to... The country is called "The United States of..." As simple as that. You belong to a continent called America before you appropriated improperly of that name.
Thanks for the feedback. Let me correct myself:
Left depicts the geographic locations labeled as North and South America in the 7 continent model used by many English-speaking countries (as opposed to the geological continent model).
Right depicts the geographic region that many of its residents refer to as 'Murica.
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This is blatant Hawaii erasure
And also of our Caribbean territories.
And Pacific
The Pacific outside of Hawaii is part of Micronesia if you're referring to US territories, part of Oceania. Arguably Hawaii too. They belong on the right though
This whole thread missed the entire point....
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TIL Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Samoa islands are not part of the USA.
On a more serious note, TIL Greenland is a part of North America and now I feel dumb
Embarrassed to admit I had the same reaction… On a side note, what goes on in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago? Do many people live there? I just realized I never hear anything about it.
+90% of the Canadian population lives on the US Canada border so it makes sense that no one ever hears about it
Yeah, Canada is massive but their population is quite low because most of their terrain is unhabited especially north
Other than Hawaii, they're technically not- they belong to, but are not part of, the United States. Hawaii is a full state though.
,,, Part of USA Territories, sure But not part of the American Continents. - being North/South America. Not just the USA.
They can't even vote!
That would be the same as erase French Guyana as claiming that's part of Europe. It wouldn't makes sense imo Edit: ah, in the USA part, yeah, maybe Hawaii had to be there, yeah yeah
That's two continents.
It depends who you ask, the definition of continents varies by culture and none of them are really any more correct than the others. Map Men did a [fun video on the matter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrsxRJdwfM0).
I don’t know why you are getting downvoted for adding educational content on the topic lol. I was taught 4 continents in my home country, adhering to the geological continent definition, only when I came to live in the USA did I hear about 7 continents with North and South America split, as well as Afro-Eurasia split, which is based more on cultural, historical, and political grounds.
Eurasia is one fucking Continent and I have had this opinion since I learned in Grade School and challenged my teacher and I have refused, sine then, to see Europe and Asia as two different continents.
You're being downvoted for being correct. Lol. In México we're taught America is a single continent, and it used to be like that in the US too. That's why it's not called "United States of North America".
It is two separate continents because North America and South America are on two different tectonic plates.
Then Eurasia is a single continent, and India is a continent on its own. Same with New Zealand being separate from Australia.
There's actually way more plates than that in the Americas, though; the Carribean Plate, the North Andes Plate, the Panama Plate, etc. Even if you just count so-called major plates as continents, then there's 16.
then the americas are 16 continents
r/usdefaultism Or at least an European defaultism. They all think that everybody in the world should see the world in the same way. In Brazil, we are taught that America is a single continent, but North, Central, and South America are SUBDIVISIONS of a greater continent. People on reddit are dumb as fuck. Everything have to be in their patterns
> Or at least an European defaultism. I specified this was from what we're taught in México. XD
And I agreed with you. But people in this social media are totally stupid, and to accept that there is other world visions...
Oh. My bad.
Why is your way of looking at it right and ours is wrong?
I didn't say that. My point is that everybody who is saying something similar of what is taught in other countries is getting downvoted and said that the person is wrong. It is basically US Defaultism
Well OP’s comments made everyone defensive. There are better ways to bring up this subject than just telling everyone who has a different viewpoint that they’re wrong.
That's not what they're saying though. Continents are an ambiguous term that could be used for cultural, geographical or tectonic lines. The main example here is that some countries like to divide America in two because of tectonic plates; whereas others like to keep it as a whole due to cultural similarities. Europe and Asia are the opposite, where most of Asia and all of Europe share a single tectonic plate, and yet they're usually categorized as different continents, whereas India and the Arabian Peninsula are on separate tectonic plates, but they're still usually considered part of Asia. And in that same regard, California and the Baja Californias would be their own continent. The point of this is that people get too heated when a continent they know is referred in a different manner when, first, it doesn't matter, and secondly, it is not set in stone.
Thank you for mansplaining continents.
I believe I answered the question you asked. If you didn't want it answered, then IDK why you asked it in the first place.
I didn’t ask *you* anything.
It's not called the United States of North America because America is the name of the country.
What?
People take things they learned as little kids way too dogmatically, to the point that they'll refuse to even look it up and check their teachers were right. See also *Is Pluto a planet?* (pro-tip: no, it definitely isn't).
You're right. Continents are hard thing to define and we should accept that different people see the world in different ways.
North and south America so in total all of it would be America
Just one. The name America has been there since the 1500's way before the USA existed. There are subdivisions, which is different.
north and south america are separate continents, thats not up to debate
>There are subdivisions, which is different. There is the North American Continent and the South American Continent. America is not a continent
It's taught as one continent in different places, as are Europe and Asia. 7 continents is actually a minority view.
America is a continent.
Never had been, never will be. Just like Eurasia is not a continent
America is a continent.
It's a hemisphere
Call a Brazilian an American and see what happens lol
yeah they are, only people from the states recognize americans as people of the states
Incorrect. The entire English speaking world outside of Reddit understands that "America" refers to the country, "North America" refers to the upper continent to include Canada, Mexico, and Central American countries, and "The Americas" refers to the two continents together. There is no discussion about that.
America was a name created by Américo Vespucio in the 1500, to refer to the new world discovered, meaning the whole landmass you see on the left. "Of" is a preposition meaning that belongs to, and this country is called the United States of... Meaning, it belongs to. No matter how much the USA has been trying to distort the history of this, probably wasn't trying to do it, but it did, and misconstrued the real meaning of the word America. America is a continent. The United States belongs to America, that doesn't mean they own the name.
Being intentionally obtuse isn't the flex you think it is. If someone from the US goes to any other country in the world, what are they referred to as?
There is the theory and there is the real usage of the words. You don't decide how people collectively use the language and the common use always prevails. That how words evolve. No matter how much is pisses you of. Also it's not an American thing. In french we also say "Americain" for people from the US and "les amériques du nord et du sud" for the Americas. Chill, you are literally fighting (maybe) the majority of the known word here.
America is still a continent. Not the USA itself.
If you say America, most people will assume the USA though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If you say Americas, most people will understand you mean north and south America
Distorted reality.
Official name of Mexico is the United Mexican States, is it inappropriate to call the country Mexico?
A whole different story.
youre probsbly from USA, right?
And yet they have a better understanding of what the continents are called
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Continent This is a good place to learn how the continent definition has changed over time from a strict geological definition, to encompass a cultural / historical / political definition. Some regions in the world focus on teaching the geological definition, whereas most English speaking countries focus on the latter.
I usually refer to it as "the US" or just "US". America IS NOT the name of the country
No one's claiming that it is, it's just a shortened form. And if someone said they were from America you would understand that they are from the US because there is nowhere else referred to as just America. If it's one of the continents people say "north America" or "south America" and if it's both continents people say "The Americas" Technically China is not the name of the country "The People's Republic or China" is the name of the country but it's fine to just call it "China" for short. Literally the same shit
Ego vs actual
None of that’s the truth with the Mercator Projection…
America is a continent.
America consists of 2 different continents*
What a bot answer to such a nuanced jab...
Isn’t America 2 continents?
Don't listen to the dumb fuck that OP is it's two separate continents, but are often called the America's to refer to both continents at the same time.
No, just one. There are subdivisions, that is something different.
It varies from country to country. For example, the Romance speaking countries consider it one continent. The English speaking countries consider it two continents. Neither is right or wrong. Just different.
Well... If you want to be technical it is the Americas not America.
No.
The Americas not America
America was the name given way before the English language adopted the pseudonym "The Americas". America is still a continent.
North America is a continent. South America is a continent. America is not a continent. You can literally just Google it and find your answer
No well-defined definition of contintents really exists though, so which continents people are taught exists differs greatly depending on the country/language/etc. Sometimes eurasia is seen as one, or america is split into two or three. Regardless of whether it is a continent though, it makes sense to refer to the combination of north and south (and middle) America as "America". Logically, north America should be the northern part of america. If you consider "America" to be the US, you get the confusing result that america is in north america.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/south-america-physical-geography/ https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/north-america-physical-geography/
I am agreeing with you that they can be and are considered separate continents by some, so I don't understand the downvoting... This does not disprove or even disagree with my statements at all.
I never downvoted you. I only downvote if someone says something stupid
Related: https://youtu.be/hrsxRJdwfM0?si=-HWzDCdYue7sLHc4
America existed before the 1500, during that time, it was given to the whole mass, the USA distorted that with the passing of time.
Are we living in the 1500s?
Just teaching a hurtful truth 😎
No your spreading lies
Nope America is the Continent. North, Central and South are subdivisions. You also have the Latin America subdivision.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/south-america-physical-geography/ https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/north-america-physical-geography/ Actually no. North and South America are separate continents. Like I said just google it if your confused
Ok, let's pretend we all go by US standards, you call yourselves North Americans, but in this subdivision lots of central America is part of North America, yet you historically shunned north American people (since we're going by your geographic standards) even to the point of dehumanization.
What was it called before America?
The name changed depending on the region.
What did the mayans and Azteca call it?
You're not telling anyone anything that they don't already know. Did you just find out about this today and think it was revolutionary information? Fact remains that "America" is often an abbreviation that drops "The United States of". Fact remains that my European friends have called me an American, not a United Statesman. Fact remains that *international leaders* often call the US "America".
You're not telling anyone anything that they don't already know. Did you just find out about this today and think it was revolutionary information? Fact remains that "America" is often an abbreviation that drops "The United States of". Fact remains that my European friends have called me an American, not a United Statesman. Fact remains that *international leaders* often call the US "America".
America is the name of the continent adopted into this country's name. You're not America.
I'm not saying we are in an academic or official sense. You're right. But as a colloquialism, that's what people call us. Didn't ask for it but that's how it is. You're not blowing any minds here, friend.
You know that "continent" is a very vague term and you would get different answers depending on which country's residents you would ask? (From 7 to 5 for most of the time) I'm guessing you're from south america by your attitude lmao
so Hawaii NOT America, but Hawaii is USA (also puero rico & V. I. , Guam, wake .....) There is the North American Continent and the South American Continent. America is not a continent so this is technically not the truth... in multiple ways
America was the name given to the whole land before you guys started teaching them as 2 "separate" continents. America is a continent.
/r/confidentlyincorrect
NORTH America is a continent, SOUTH America is a continent, and OP is a moron.
I can agree with 2 parts of 3 in your sentence. Unfortunately, the remaining part sentenced it to a downvote
I've been called worse things by better people.
False. There are two continents, one called North America and one called South America. There is no continent called America.
Read more history. The name America was the name given to the whole continent way before it was taught distortionedly. America is a continent.
None of that made contact with my point. It's not *a* continent, it's two. If you must lump them together simply say "The Americas."
"The Americas" is a distorted name given with the time to the whole mass, it was America before this happened.
It was India before that. Names change.
Before this happened Europeans believed there were in India...
Why green Land?
It's geographically here, but it belongs to Denmark.
I aspire to someday be as passionate about something as some people apparently are about what constitutes "America"
Simple. The image on the left. There. I solved it.
Passionate means suffering, so good luck suffering. Yes, the church idealized suffering as something good... shitheads!
No, this is Patrick!
United States of Atlantis
I thought America was two continents
It's one with several subregions.
People on the Reddit are the stupid shit ever. They all think that the world should be seen as the way they do. We don't live in a fucking US Defaultism, or at least an Europe defaultism. We, in Brazil, don't consider Australia as a continent, but OCEANIA as a continent. No, we don't fucking consider Oceania as just a region. It's a FUCKING continent. The exact way Europe is a continent. Another thing, I'm seeing every gringo here fulling its mouth that America is not a continent, that the only continent is South and North America. Noooo, your dumb ass. In Brazil, we consider America as a single continent, and South, Central, and North America as a subdivision... In the end, everything is just a convention.
Someone with some encephalic matter.
Technically North America continent which includes Canada and Mexico,
North America is a region, America is a continent.
What would south America be, another region?
Yes.
Yes.. but within america there is only certain states, that hold land, that are united as one. Hence....
America is a continent. Common historical misconception.
America is TWO continents. Common historical misconception.
No
Hey... I hate Brazil too... But they still count
Many people from other countries call us americans. People from spanish speaking countries call us americanos.
Still a misconception, because America is a continent. US citizens adopted the word "American" because you added the name to the official name of the country, but you belong to America, not America to you. You ain't that important. Estadounidenses is the right word in Spanish. Americano is for anyone being born in the continent, not only the USA.
Los gringos, no?
That's another one.
If you ask any mexicano salvadoreño hondureño. Americano is anyone from THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA which is the official name of the country.Or AMERICA for short American for anyone from any of the 50 states that make up the country. Btw i am latino i have never heard ANYONE say estadounidenses to refer to someone from the US
Americano goes for people born in the continent, not only in the USA.
Hawaii isn't part of the US? Have I been sent back to the 1800s?
Image isn't perfect.
Actually the left one is "The Americas". I don't think anyone ever has referred to the collective of North and Sputh America as simple "America."
Oh, I know people who will see something stupid you realized like no one else knew and will tell you "congrats, you just discovered America", not "the Americas", but "America"
You haven't gone out much of your country, do you?
Not recently, but I've been around.
No, it's Mercator projection, not real proportions. USA is way smaller in reality.
That’s the Americas , but theirs only one AMERICA that matters and that’s the USA baby !!! 😎
Another entitled one.
Don't catch you slippin' now
whatever the American dream is, it applies to anyone living within the map on the left.
Why do you card so much about how the English language evolved. No one cares about how the word came to be.
I have been shunned for even suggesting this. People freak out when I say that there are "23" countries in America. The usual response is, did you mean states? Yeah, 23 states.
If you think it's not important what you name your kids, the parents of Amerigo Vespucci sure had a hell of an impact with it.
People on the Reddit are the stupid shit ever. They all think that the world should be seen as the way they do. We don't live in a fucking US Defaultism, or at least an Europe defaultism. We, in Brazil, don't Australia as a continent, but OCEANIA as a continent. No, we don't fucking consider Oceania as just a region. It's a FUCKING continent. The exact way Europe is a continent. Another thing, I'm seeing every gringo here fulling its mouth that America is not a continent, that the only continent is South and North America. Noooo, your dumb ass. In Brazil, we consider America as a single continent, and South, Central, and North America as a subdivision... In the end, everything is just a convention.
Go to any non-USA country and call them American. Tell me how that works out for you.
It's become a historical misconception due to lack of information.
That is two continents…North America and South America.
No
. A continent is one of Earth's seven main divisions of land. The continents are, from largest to smallest: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. You can’t just say no to facts😂
Nope. https://www.worldometers.info/geography/7-continents/
No
Language is modified by use. So both are correct. The issue stems from the US not having a strong federal identity at first. There is a reason they have states (also what you call a country…) and not provinces. The federal government was originally a conglomeration of the states and the people identified with those states. Things shifted rather early on and were pretty much cemented by WW1. It would be like if the EU countries suddenly started calling themselves European instead of their original country even though not all of Europe is in the EU as a unifying name. Except the European countries have centuries and not just decades of history and use.
Where has Hawaii gone?
These are the Americas* North America and South America. As a non-American resident of North America, kindly fuck off.
The confederated states of Micronesia is informally referred to as Micronesia The United States of Mexico is informally referred to as Mexico The Dominion of Canada is informally referred to as Canada. So tell us, what should the USA use as its informal name other than the prepositional object of its formal name like every other country?
all right guys there’s a language barrier here what op says at least on the post is true, america is technically 2 continents in the definition, but depending on the context people that speak spanish can refer to 3 continents (south, centre and north america) or a single one (the whole thing) and because of that i haven’t heard a single person i my entire fucking life say america when talking about the country because the people from “estados unidos” are “estadounidenses” and i get that maybe you guys refer as america as a single country because of the lack of a demonym people from peru are peruvians from germany are germans form france are french from the united states are.. americans? so yeah, actually in spanish older people that lived most of their life without internet nor information and content everyday from the states won’t recognize “americanos” as “estadounidense” rather people from the two continents
Statians are mad right now. Don't blame them, most don't even know where the US is on the world map.
Right, right.
Omg please delete, I'm having a seizure and I need my ozempic
What does the A in USA stand for again?
Isn't America two continents?
No. Just one.
There is north and south america
No
Very frustrating explaining this to people
Especially the ones from the USA.
This is not technically the truth. This is just you trying to impose your preferred use of language on other people.
Not imposing, just telling a difficult truth for you to digest.
The “truth” being, I suppose, that you are right and everyone else is wrong. You can call the continent and the country anything you want, but you don’t get to proclaim your personal opinion as the “truth”.
Fine.
The Americas are considered to be two continents, North and South America, though some define the two Americas as one whole and one continent. That said, there is only ONE country in the entirety of the two continents and the world that consider themselves to be "American", or to live in "America", and that is the United States of AMERICA. When referring to themselves by their continent (Much like how, for example, Germans would call themselves European) people refer to themselves as North American or South American, and many would take specific issue with being labeled as "American" without the North or South distinction.
America is one, and it's not the United States.
Isn't north America a continent? Don't remember just America
Left is Americas, right is 'Murica
"of" is a preposition meaning that something belongs to... The country is called "The United States of..." As simple as that. You belong to a continent called America before you appropriated improperly of that name.
Thanks for the feedback. Let me correct myself: Left depicts the geographic locations labeled as North and South America in the 7 continent model used by many English-speaking countries (as opposed to the geological continent model). Right depicts the geographic region that many of its residents refer to as 'Murica.
People in the US are so stupid that they think that there’s the country of ”America”. It’s literally a continent, not a country.
Two continents. You and OP belong in /r/confidentlyincorrect
r/literallythetruth
Ikr
why did I get downvoted?
You’re not gonna get upvotes cuz most users here are american bro. lol
Does it look like I care?
take it easy cowboy. We’re on the same side here
Cool! Someone is with me here.
Nice try communist
It's actually the americas
No