Timeline for Why are the people of the United States called "Americans" when the whole continent is "America" [duplicate]
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 17:41 | comment | added | BCLC | @mmyers michelle fairley is northern irish? (never mind that it's an old revision LOL) | |
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MrHen Callithumpian Alain Pannetier Φ Robusto RegDwigнt |
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| Jun 5, 2011 at 8:08 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | The question of whether there is one continent or two with the Pacific on the west and the Atlantic on the east is a matter of convention. Some people have been taught one convention and some people another. Neither is inherently right or wrong. | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 23:38 | answer | added | Lumi | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 23:12 | comment | added | overslacked | @Anonymous - no. There are two distinct American continents, North America and South America. | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 22:28 | comment | added | Anonymous | Oh yes, I remember the united states created the "Panama Canal" and spitted the continent in two. Isn't like saying United States is two countries because there is East and West, Where did Columbus arrived? To North America? Or to Americas? ( poor Columbus, America should've been called Columbia ) | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 22:27 | answer | added | John Y | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 22:25 | answer | added | phenry | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 22:18 | comment | added | Kit Z. Fox♦ | The "whole continent" is not called "America." It is called "North America." And Canadians, Mexicans, and Americans are occasionally called "North Americans." | |
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| Jun 3, 2011 at 20:56 | comment | added | mgb | @mmyers,simple - Irish or British depending on their great^N-grandfather's opinion on the doctrine of transubstantiation! That's why people there have such a great sense of humour. | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 20:02 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | ...although having said that I think many nationalists (who want political union with Eire) might object to the term. But like it or lump it, they're currently the minority, and I don't know what they'd call themselves instead. | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 18:28 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @mmyers: He'd be an Ulsterman. | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 18:23 | comment | added | mmyers | @FumbleFingers: Out of curiousity, what do you call someone from Northern Ireland? UKish? Or is everyone on the island of Ireland Irish? | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 18:20 | answer | added | T.E.D. | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 18:16 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Maybe related to the fact that many Americans think everyone in Britain is English. | |
| Jun 3, 2011 at 18:12 | history | asked | Anonymous | CC BY-SA 3.0 |