I feel like I’ve never even heard someone say it like that either. Maybe it’s just my bubble but I never hear people refer to themselves by their continent except maybe occasionally Europeans.
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JonEFive@midwest.social 8 months ago
While technically correct, I’ve never heard a Brazilian refer to themselves as “American” when they intended to mean South American. Linguistically, when you say “American” you’re talking about a citizen of the United States, not just any person from the western hemisphere.
makyo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 8 months ago
Brazil considers the Americas to be a single continent, with south/north being subdivisions. A lot of people here don’t understand that usa’s actual name is America just like the continent, so they often get mad when the word American is used to refer to people from the USA instead of from anywhere in the americas.
Hildegarde@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If anything we should just rename the continents to remove the confusion.
JGrffn@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or just wait for the secessions to inevitably start rolling in, then the gringos can drop the name. They were second anyways.