Can't say that I have, really, and I think that the argument is ridiculous. Most folks don't have a continental identity ... they call themselves according to their country. I am an American because I come from the United States of America.
I've never met a Guatemalan who identified himself as Central American, or a Venezuelan that indicated that she was a South American.
Perhaps my life has been sheltered, which I doubt, or maybe it is that I don't keep company with many liberals, for which I'm proud.
I apologize that I couldn't tell which side of the argument you were taking in your previous post.
It’s okay. You weren’t the only one, so obviously I wasn’t clear enough. The whole thing is ridiculous. But this young girl didn’t invent that particular part of her nonsense answer. Blame her liberal teachers for that one.
Perhaps my life has been sheltered,...
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Perhaps you have not traveled much outside the States.
Many people latch on to our use of the word “American” as another reason to feel resentful and to accuse us of arrogance. They do not call our country America, they call it “the States” and they call us “yankees/yanquis”. They will say that Canadians are Americans too, for example.
I always agree with them, by saying, “yes, they are North Americans, but they don’t go by that name, they prefer to distinguish themselves as Canadians/Canadiens. [Everything has to be written twice in Canada/Canada’.]