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Seinfeld isn't funny.
America is the whole continent. You guys just fenced the worst part of it.
Tell that to everyone else that refers to us as "Americans," we're far from the only people to do it.
I'm willing to excuse their faults. They mostly do it out of the consequences of colonialism and cultural appropriation. That's just as much as saying they do it because of the barrel of a gun.
That said most proposals I've seen on the subject are... silly or unwirldy. I'm not gonna call people from the US "estadounidense" (looooong) or "USAmerican" (uppercases) unless they tell me they're OK with it. I'd be fine with otherwise distinguising eg.: something like "American" vs "Américan", since English has been fine with diacritics for a good while of centuries already (née, naïve, blasé, etc).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonyms_for_the_United_State
I personally alternate between US citizens and US Americans
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Are you implying we do it out of hubris and everyone else is somehow gaslit into it or forced to?
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Ahem. It's TWO continents.
Do you have a good source on that? Every school book and college book I've ever checked, plus Encarta and Wikipedia, explicitly state that it is one continent.
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ITT Europeans tell us shit we already know about changes most of us want because they don't understand gerrymandering and the electoral college
"most of us want"
The recent election demonstrates that less than half of you want anything close to that.
Again betraying that you don't understand how stacked shit is... 70m is like 20% of our population.
And even less than that could be arsed to vote for anything close to what "most of you" want.
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Despite the cost of healthcare in America, the quality is generally seen as the very best there is. Canadian healthcare is so bad that anyone who can afford it will head south to actually get quality treatment, immediately. Up here a friend of my family is probably going to head to Mexico (can't afford American care, sadly) for knee surgery because the waitlist in Canada is far too long and he can't afford to be off work until it's his turn.
America certainly does have it's share of significant problems, but a huge amount of what they seem to eat up is blatant propaganda designed to erode the public's faith in their nation. There's a reason that so many Canadians move to the southern states if they can afford it.
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Your (as in Americans) Imperial system of Units & measurements is a big joke & you are a British colony & you have bad cars
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