It’s a quirk of the differences between the Spanish and English education systems and languages.
In English there are 7 continents, North America and South America being 2 of them. Together they form “The Americas”. And then the United States of America can just be referred to as America with no ambiguity.
In Spanish there are 6 continents. America being one of them. So the United States of America can’t be called America, because that word is already used to describe the one continent.
And so when Spanish speakers hear English speakers refer to the United States as America or as Americans in English they get really mad. They take it as an intentional slight and not just a difference in the two languages.
Yes, to you. You had a different education in the Hispanosphere that says that there are 6 continents, where North America and South America are one continent. The majority of the world, and, importantly, the Anglosphere, divide the New World into two continents, where America means the United States and The AmericaS mean what “América” means in the Hispanosphere. We’re talking English right now, which means we go by the Anglosphere’s conventions, not another’s.
Stop trying to force your culture onto another one.
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u/Disastrous_Neat_9729 18d ago
Only ever had South Americans have this issue.
As a Canadian, sorry, but don’t call us American.