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DominiKard 🍁🌻🌎
@dominikard.bsky.social

"Canada is not the United States" will be more appropriate. Especially, if you are looking to produce one in French "Le Canada n'est pas les États-Unis". Americans, and other parts of the world, used "America" to refer as the USA. I think it's a big mistake to do so in Canada.

Oh The Urbanity!
@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social

This depends on language! Spanish and Portuguese have the convention that the entire western hemisphere is one continent called “America”. In English, the convention is to distinguish two continents: North America and South America. Thus, Canadians are North American but not American.

tislo.bsky.social
@tislo.bsky.social

Yeah, I'm not sure if this is right. If we're North American, then we're also American. It's our neighbours who have had 250 years to come up with a proper name for themselves, and failed.

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@darkwaterphotos.bsky.social

Actually, we want to get away from calling them "American", altogether, it's a continent, not a country. I'm not budging on this single issue. Like the rest of the countries on the continent, they're just a part of it, part of the continent. The American Continents are home to 35 countries.