Indeed, U.S.A. is not America!
America is the name of a whole continent. United States of America means that the United States belongs to America and NOT that America belongs to the United States. So, next time you want to refer to The United States of America, you can do it as U.S. or the States or whatever you want but not as only America. Gotcha?
How should I use the term America then?
Here we will show you some wrong and correct uses of the term America:
This is how we do it in America.
This is how we do it in the States.
- America is my country and I love it.
- The United States is my country and I love it.
- America lost the Vietnam war.
- U.S.A. lost the Vietnam war.
- Here in America we love Mc Donald's.
- Here in the U.S. we love Mc Donald's.
Please, note that this page in not about demonyms (gentilics) but about the way to call a country.
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And for the other comment about why Latin America perform so badly, PISA test are not objective and like many have pointed out, rigged. No wonder why the test is only in English and French. However this is not a justification nor a excuse that in Latin America there isn't a big incentive for students nor a good investment in the education environment, however the material that is taught is actually excellent or decent in some cases like Chile, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, etc.
I don't know why my comments about being wrongfully taught were downvoted, it is just hypocrisy. Why all the languages or countries or whatever, taught the 5 oceans and the 7 seas, but coincidentally a country has America in its name and suddenly America being two continents is alright?
"En Hecho(Djibouti)says...
All of humanity doesn’t have to see things your way. How can you expect others to respect your definitions when you don’t respect theirs?"
I disagree with that kind of arguing. In the end it just end being hypocrisy. It is respecting that everyone can have an opinion not the opinion itself.
By the 1950s, however, virtually all American geographers had come to insist that the visually distinct landmasses of North and South America deserved separate designations. This was also the period when Antarctica was added to the list, despite its lack of human inhabitants, and when Oceania as a "great division" was replaced by Australia as a continent along with a series of isolated and continentally attached islands. The resulting seven-continent system quickly gained acceptance throughout the United States.
In the 1960s, during the heyday of geography's "quantitative revolution," the scheme received a new form of scientific legitimization from a scholar who set out to calculate, through rigorous mathematical equations, the exact number of the world's continents. Interestingly enough, the answer he came up with conformed almost precisely to the conventional list: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Australia plus New Zealand), Africa, and Antarctica.
While it might seem surprising to find North and South America still joined into a single continent in a book published in the United States in 1937, such a notion remained fairly common until World War II. It cannot be coincidental that this idea served American geopolitical designs at the time, which sought both Western Hemispheric domination and disengagement from the "Old World" continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Paradoxically, almost as soon as the now-conventional seven-part continental system emerged in its present form, it began to be abandoned by those who had most at stake in its
11propagation: professional geographers. Whereas almost all American university-level global geography textbooks before World War II reflected continental divisions, by the 1950s most were structured around "world regions" (discussed in chapter 6). Yet the older continental divisions have persisted tenaciously in the popular press, in elementary curricula, in reference works, and even in the terminology of world regions themselves. Anyone curious about the contemporary status of the continental scheme need only glance through the shelves of cartographic games and products designed for children.
En Hecho = David = United Statian
Ehhmmm... I didn’t write that En Hecho stuff.
https://factsmaps.com/pisa-2018-worldwide-ranking-average-score-of-mathematics-science-reading/
Why does Latin America do so poorly?
If that has anything to do with the word America, then Latin America isn’t so poor on Mathematics and Science related to America. If it is related to anything else though, then it’s okay with me.
Impressive scores from Canada and China :)
Actually Canada is the American leader!
David Spiegelhalter of Cambridge wrote: "Pisa does present the uncertainty in the scores and ranks - for example the United Kingdom rank in the 65 countries is said to be between 23 and 31. It's unwise for countries to base education policy on their Pisa results, as Germany, Norway and Denmark did after doing badly in 2001."
According to Forbes, in some countries PISA selects a sample from only the best-educated areas or from their top-performing students, slanting the results. China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore and Argentina were only some of the examples.
According to an open letter to Andreas Schleicher, director of PISA, various academics and educators argued that "OECD and Pisa tests are damaging education worldwide".
According to O Estado de São Paulo, Brazil shows a great disparity when classifying the results between public and private schools, where public schools would rank worse than Peru, while private schools would rank better than Finland.
Anglo America does well thanks to the Chinese immigrants!
I'm a native English speaker from the northeastern US, and the word "Americans" bothers me as well. The Americas are two continents with many countries, so why should any one country claim the word "American" as its own? In my mind, it mirrors the mindset many people in the US tend to have - that we are the sole shining beacon of civilization in the world and everyone must look up to us.
Ok, but America is a single continent.
All of humanity doesn’t have to see things your way. How can you expect others to respect your definitions when you don’t respect theirs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent
Lol, I do agree with your statement!
But as for your question, Continent Models don’t really have anything to do with their own definition on words such as America and American.
Not all forms of view the world are correct, is not a matter of respecting or not is a matter of reasoning, logic and common sense.
I’m replying to Andy … There is NO RIGHT OR WRONG … 'Form Of View' … in the world! All Continent Models make NO BIG DEAL in determining the exact number of continents existing in the world.
I agree with each country that says there are 7 continents …
(1)North America - (2)South America
(3)Europe - (4)Africa - (5)Asia
(6)Oceania - (7)Antarctica
I agree with each country that says there are 6 continents …
(1)America
(2)Europe - (3)Africa - (4)Asia
(5)Oceania - (6)Antarctica
… to be continued!
… continued from previous.
I agree with each country that says there are 6 continents …
(1)North America - (2)South America
(3)Eurasia - (4)Africa
(5)Oceania - (6)Antarctica
I agree with each country that says there are 5 continents …
(1)America
(2)Eurasia - (3)Africa
(4)Oceania - (5)Antarctica
I agree with each country that says there are 4 continents …
(1)America
(2)Eurafrasia (aka Afro-Eurasia)
(3)Oceania - (4)Antarctica
All-in-All: Names of places in the world may as well be a matter of logic and common sense … if they share a matching word in their names!
Map of America
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3290.ar305500/
Created: London, Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, 1772
Repository: Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu
Are you Anglo American Mr. En Hecho?
https://nyti.ms/3tww0OY
Muy interesante.
The United States is a Criminal Corporation! XD
https://wakeup-world.com/2015/12/02/proof-that-the-usa-is-controlled-by-foreign-corporations/