Why when someone says i am from america.. or america is funny, they think they talking about USA.. What about central and south america?
2007-08-30 15:23:23 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
That is because America, to most people means The United States of America. By your logic, if they were to call the U.S.A. North America then there would be an error. They exclude Mexico, and Canada and you Get America, U.S., U.S.A., The United States or The United States Of America or America for sort. Both Canada, Mexico and The United States of America are part of North America.
Look at it this way, you drop the United States of and you get America. Need I say more! I never heard of any other individual nation refereed to as America. Although, I have heard of Both South America and North America, refereed to as the America's.
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2007-08-30 15:37:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The USA is funny. There's nothing funny about central and south america. They're impoverished, corrupt and humid. Plus they've a bunch of commie fascists in Venezuela. I'd like to see that country bombed backed to the stone age.
2007-08-30 22:29:04 · answer #2 · answered by scheidemann2007 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
This is a good point.
USA's founding fathers were the first to take the name. Nobody told the Canadians, Mexicans or other Central and South Americans that they could't use the name America as their national identity.
2007-08-30 22:29:37 · answer #3 · answered by GodWillDestroyTheWicked 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I would assume because our country is well known, and USA stands for United States of America. I can’t think of any other country off hand that includes the continent in their name.
2007-08-30 22:27:41 · answer #4 · answered by major_20_20 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because it is the united states of AMERICA. There is no other country that has "America" in it's name
2007-08-30 22:26:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
cuz if they meant central or south they would have said "central" or "south" before they said "america" i think that is pretty straight forward.....usually people from central or south america talk about which country they are from anyway, so they most likely use that name.
2007-08-30 22:26:09 · answer #6 · answered by Andrea 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The America's are what the western hemisphere is known by. America is the country, common sense.
2007-08-30 22:31:27 · answer #7 · answered by redd headd 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because us Americans are ignorant and think that the only America is the US of A America.
2007-08-30 22:27:05 · answer #8 · answered by punch 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
cuz i guess usually people from sout and central america almost never say that their from america, they usually say the country. us americans are a little bit more ignorant (lol! jp!) and we just say america, so i guess that's why
2007-08-30 22:26:42 · answer #9 · answered by Janina Marie Q 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
What do you think that A stands for?
2007-08-30 22:31:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋