Leadified on 14 April 2014
| BraLoD said: If you start calling USA as America, you can't expect me to give you an answer. Because I'm American too, as I live in Brazil, and I don't think our continent is only your country, as it really isn't. Cuba is part of America too and until some time ago was a socialistic country, and you can't call an American country anti-American. But even if you are only talking about USA, no, people are free do have their own ideals, and USA is supposed to be a free country, so anti-USA would be judge people for what they believe and try to impose what they have to be. |
As a Canadian I'd like to input my opinion on the matter. Here in Canada it can be rather insulting to refer to us as "Americans" because it implies that Canada is a part of the United States as opposed to it's own seperate country. When we say "America" we're refering to the United States of America. The "Americas" refers to North and South America together, we are not bothered by the Americans taking the title of "America".
I understand that in Spanish and Portuguese, "America" does not refer to the United States but the continent of the Americas, and citizens of the US are estadunidense and estadounidenses but in English that is not the case.
