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I would like to, politely, remind that America is a continent with more than 20 soveraign countries. (Many of those countries having a much better health system.)
The country in question, here, is United States of America, aka, USA.
No USA has hijacked that. What you are talking about is the Americas plural with an S, which include north, south and central America.
I absolutely agree with you that it is stupid and arrogant of USA to call itself America. But it is shorthand for United States of America.
In my own language Danish “Amerika” is indeed the 3 Americas combined, but in English “America” is used interchangeably with USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika
Translation: “Amerika” is the combined landmass containing North America (including Central America) and South America.
It depends on the language, and here we use English. And yes I agree with you it is stupid. But people from USA are called Americans, hence it is sometimes more logical to use America than USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American
I don’t know what your native language is, but you are probably transferring norms from your own language to English, that in this context makes you simply wrong.
I would like to, politely, remind that America is actually 2 continents.
Why you gotta insist on being annoyingly pedantic for no reason? You know when people say “America” when the discussion context is a country, that they are referring to the USA. And then being pedantic about it and wrong? Oh boy.
I was surprised when I started teaching internationally that there is no global consensus about the number of continents.
In South America, they consider America to be one continent. (Remember Bad Bunny’s Superbowl performance when he listed all of the countries that make up America?)
Some countries say that Eurasia is one continent. Others say it’s two.
Some countries do not consider Antarctica a continent because it doesn’t have permanent inhabitants.
It’s really not as black-and-white as your middle school geography textbook said it was.
You are presenting an ad hominem argument. Do you have anything actually meaningful to bring to the discussion other than your self-righteousness?
My argument is this:
First: America is named after the italian cartographer Amerigo Vispucci. He is attributed to be the first to realize America was not India, as Columbus thought. This happened long before the country even existed.
Second: The name of the country IS United States of America. The word “of” literally means that the group of states is in or belongs to America. Therefore, America cannot be the country itself.
Third: There are plenty of other examples of continents with geographical subdivisions:
Indeed, there are different types of sub-divisions. For example in America:
None of these divisions create a new continent.
Fourth: The shorthand “american” was introduced by the french as a quick way to identify the two main variants of English (the language). They started to call the English from England “Anglais”, and the one from this new continent “Anglais américain” or simply “américain”.
Fifth: in a lighter tone… Would you trust the same country that defends this health “care” system, the imperial units system, and that elected this current president to tell you how to split the world?
You can see it as pedantic. I see it as respecting the 20+ countries that have to live with this name appropiation. We can of course disagree, but I invite you to bring actual arguments.
I did in the first part of my comment. I didn’t provide any links, because you didn’t. If that’s what you want though, fine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent
So together that represents 4.1 billion of the 8.3 billion people on the planet
If we add just Russia to that list, even ignoring the rest of Eastern Europe, we come to 4.2 billion, or over half of the global population now.
I’m assuming you’re in Latin America, and that’s why you’re taking this personally. My commentary was simply about you being pedantic about something that doesn’t really matter. The tone of your post seemed to imply that your opinion here was the only correct one… something that clearly isn’t accurate.
I didn’t realize that half the world combined the Americas, much like it seems you didn’t know that as well given your original post.
Either way, this discussion is off topic from the original post about Healthcare in the US and ultimately pointless here. I can only assume you came here looking for an argument given the tone of your original post and responses so far, so you can have fun arguing with yourself over pointless delineations that serve no purpose. Have a good day.