Comment on What is happening with all the explosions in America and Mexico? First it was California then Washinton now it's Mexico?

FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’re screaming against the wind of hundreds of years of language usage.

  Besides, in English, if you’re referring to both continents, you say the americas, and use north or south if specifying one or the other

  So, no, Mexico isn’t in America, it’s in North America by conventional English usage. Or it’s in the Americas, if you want to be all inclusive.

  Those terms wouldn’t necessarily apply directly in Spanish, French, or Portuguese, and many countries in the Americas use terms in those languages to differentiate between the United States of America and the continents. Los estados unitas, el norte, etc. Depends on exactly where you are as to what gets used afaik, but my exposure is mostly to Mexicans, Nicaraguans, Puerto Ricans, and the occasional Guatemalan, and those two terms are what I’ve heard most.

  But in English? America is the default when referring to the us, since it’s cumbersome to use the united states in both speech and print. America just takes less time, and it’s so common that anywhere you go in the world, if you say America while in context of a single place, they’ll understand what you mean.

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  • FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Replace “America” with “racism” in your message and you’ll see the problem I have with your logic.

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