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An honest mistake (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[โ€“] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They might not be confused, but if you're not from the US, they'll be wrong (spoiler: America is a continent, usually broken down into North, Central, and South America (and Latin America, for hispanic countries and Brazil. Other subcategorisations of "America" the continent might exist))

[โ€“] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I'm Canadian. We know America is the entire continent. We still don't want to be called Americans. The US can keep that.