“Oh BTW, there’s American The Beautiful. It isn’t talking about Canada or Chile.”
It’s America the Beautiful:
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern impassion’d stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America! God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev’ry gain divine!
O Beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam,
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
And take a visit to any South American town and the will agree with a previous poster that America refers to both Continents. United States of America refers to fifty united states on the continent of America. Because we call ourselves Americans does not mean Citizens of the USA are the only “Americans”.
And you are wrong when you stated that if you google for a map of america you only get the USA. By going to google.com/maps and doing a search on “America” you get both North and South America.
You need a little geography lesson there chief, because you could also apply some of the verses in the song I posted to Canada but not Chile.
‘American’ was a typo. Sorry.
I lived in Colombia, SA for a number of years as a kid. Never, ever heard anyone there call themselves ‘Americans’ or even ‘South Americans’. They were Colombians, or Brazilians, or Chileans, or whatever. But they never were ‘Americans.’ But they all wanted to visit ‘America.”
But according to you, they were already there.
As far as the maps, I said Google ‘map of America’ as I did here:
When you do this you get multiple maps of America. Not Canada, not Central America, and not South America.
You get a map of America.
As far as America the Beautiful, do you seriously think that a song published in 1910, that contains patriots and pilgrims, and using the phrase America, America over and over, referred to anything but the United States of America.
Just because you think you can apply it to other countries doesn’t make it so.