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i don't see any Canadians disagreeing
As a Canadian this is the realist thing ever. Half our identity is being not-American.
25 years ago this was a bit silly, but these days it's like saying: "Look, I'm not on the Epstein List!"
But Canada is in America
Continents aren't real.
Which continent is Russia in? Is Costa Rica in the same continent as Mexico or are they in different continents? Is "Central America" a continent?
It's all made up bullshit, so why not just say Canada is it's own continent?
The only purpose of Central America is to not have Mexicans on the same continent as US people.
I fully agree with you, but add the additional point that countries are fictions as well.
While we're on the topic, borders are very fictitious.
Countries have leaders, cultures, and history. They're at least as real is this web forum we're communicating on is.
I’ll give you this; historically, they’re at least as real as the concept of whiteness.
https://theconversation.com/whiteness-is-an-invented-concept-that-has-been-used-as-a-tool-of-oppression-183387
Ya, and Europe is not a continent. What a super intelligent position to take.
There is no “America” by your definition. There are 800 million people in “the Americas”. Half of them refer to their county as simply “America”. Like 500 times a day. At least 100 million of the rest also use this label for the USA as does a big chunk of the world. When Churchill said, “You can always count of the Americans to do the right thing but too late”, was he talking about Chile or Canada?
I would say the “United States” but then some moron will point out that this could mean the United States of Mexico as if just saying “United States” or “America” is confusing anybody. Does the US National Guard protect Mexico? Cuba or Belize? The US Marines?
Do you think “America, fuck ya” is something people from Kentucky say to celebrate Honduras? Do you think “America the beautiful” is a song about Peru? Do you think the “American National Anthem” is pro Mexico?
Do you think “American football” is what they play in Brazil? Because they sure don’t play it in Canada.
And the 7,000,000,000,000 YouTube videos about “the American President”, who elected him?
It is hard for me to believe that somebody thought this would seem like a smart thing to say.
Calm down lmao
USians are so poor, they can't even get a name of its own for their country.
I run into people all the time who use the term “America” without at all meaning that country wedged between Mexico and Canada. Los Estados Unidos is often how you’ll hear the nation state referred to in Latin America, whereas “America” usually refers to the entire hemisphere.
It always blew my mind that the USA colonized the word America to have it refer only to themselves. How fucking on-brand is that?
Sorry, but I don't see her saying sorry!
Yeah, some of the key Canadian words are missing, eh?
Yeah, that hoser needs to take off
Sörry
Thdy must have vastly different smoking laws in Japan. We can't smoke within 4m of entrances (legally), let alone indoors.
We aren't - this is spot on
I’m American. That’s how we view you guys as well.
Good.
The biggest insult a Canadian could ever hear is being called 'American'.
Shit as an American the biggest insult I could ever hear is being called an American. That isn’t the flex you think it is