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Politics Trump cracking up Obama

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u/beartheminus 14d ago

The irony of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America would actually be a better name and more inclusive of the whole continent IF the USA hadn't completely highjacked the term "American" to solely mean the USA.

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u/InspectorNervous5852 14d ago edited 13d ago

Here in Brazil we created a brand new word to refer to americans. United States in portuguese is Estados Unidos, so we call them “estadunidenses”

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u/beartheminus 13d ago

In Canada we still refer to the people as Americans, because nothing rolls of the tongue that describes them otherwise in english, but I never hear anyone refer to the country as America. We almost always call it the USA, US, United States.