[badrunner]

Originally Posted by Elkhanan1

Who in the Anglo-sphere, to which you belong, conceives of North America and South America as a single geographic entity called "America?" No one, that's who. Why? Because for normal, modern, everyday English-speakers--be it from the UK, US, NZ, Australia, Canada, Ireland or any other Anglophone country I may be leaving out--it doesn't exist.

The US, aka America, and Mexico are part of the continent of North America and Brazil is part the continent of South America. The United States might be *of* America but it's not *in* "America" because there's no continent by that name in standard, contemporary English without "North" or "South" preceding it.

So, are you making a political statement or are you just being annoyingly pretentious?

Hipster contrarians.

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