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America > United States

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>It was submitted by someone who incorrectly assumes that the word "America" doesn't refer to the "United States of America."

America refers to a continent. It cannot refer to a country, especially for US citizens of Mexican origin, who find it insulting that their continent is thus negated. US citizens of Mexican or other American countries descent also have a right to their own definition of what America is, including in English.

Besides, Amikema's translation is a perfect retranslation of the esperanto sentence and I cannot see why retranslations should be deleted...

No, I refer to how US citizens of Mexican descent refer, in English, to the United States of America.

The use of "America" by old white US colonists to mean only their country, as if America was entirely theirs is demeaning to hundreds of millions of other Americans, and an insult to geographical common sense.

>I'm not going to argue this further with you.

but that's precisely what you're doing !?

>when referring to a single continent we use North America or South America.

So "America" is contained in "North America" ? Yeah, sure...

>The English word "America" is most often understood as meaning the country "the United States of America."

Not by : Spanish speakers, Portugese speakers, French speakers and Canadians. That's just 2 thirds of the population of America...
Don't you constantly argue that when the majority says something, it has to be right ? Or do you restrict this majority rule to only a remote area of the USA ?

@sacredceltic,

For your information, the word "America" means "the United States of America" in several other languages than English, such as Arabic and Persian (and you'll be surprised - even in Yiddish!).

@Eldad

I know. But I think Americans themselves know better what America is. For a majority of them, the USA are but a chunk of it.

I'm sure about that.
I simply referred to the usage of the words "America" and "American".