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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For example, Canada poster, if I asked someone where they were from and they responded "North America", I would follow with Canada? US? Mexico?

If I ask the same question and they say "from America" I would ask what state or city they were from.

In school, do you learn to name our continent as North America or just America?[/quote]

We learned them as The Americas: North America, Central America, and South America. We learned your country as the United States of America - and in short form, The States, the US or the USA. We were never taught that the US was America or that there was any country named America. Hence it sounds bizarre. [/quote]

That makes sense.  We are just seeing the same things differently.  It has nothing to do with us thinking America is the only country on the continent, because we don't see America as the continent.  The continents, in our view, are North America and South America.  Central America is a subcontinent of North America, and not its own continent.  (like the color coded maps show it  :-) )[/quote]

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