Also offensive: pointing out that English speakers do not use the word “American” to refer to people from Latin America. The term in our language is universally used to refer to people from the country America.
Also offensive: pointing out that English speakers do not use the word “American” to refer to people from Latin America. The term in our language is universally used to refer to people from the country America.
At least from my part my issue is the conflation of topographical and cultural/political/economical terms, where the former gets shoehorned into the later. Except that the former is fairly stable, and the later changes as some weird hairless chimps go back and forth.
For example, if I were to define “Central America” as a subcontinent (i.e. a topographical division of another topographical term), I don’t think that putting the line between San Diego and Huston is sensible, because it’s simply too contiguous. A better boundary would be between Coatzacoalcos and Unión Hidalgo - it splits the territory controlled by Mexico into two, but that’s fine because it’s a political boundary.
Yeah, that’s more or less the southern limit of what I said could be sensible.