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The Eurostar and the Channel Tunnel say hi If we zoom in it would feel as if people in Ibiza or Mallorca made this distinction regarding "mainland" Spain.

Don't you say no way!

This. I'm confused. I thought all these problems were related to being part of the EU?

You said "as time goes on that America the country is slowing taking precedence in people’s minds when they hear/read something that says American over the continent". Correct me if I'm wrong @Beastialg but from what I'm reading nothing of what he said agrees with that. What I understood from his comment is that (on daily situations) people in Argentina don't refer to themselves as Americans, not because they don't see themselves as Americans or much less because they think of gringos or yankees but because they refer to themselves as Argentinians. He even said that in media reports the new Pope is considered as the second American Pope because Francis was the first, as he was Argentinian and therefore American. Like Ulizos said and probably explained it better than I did, in the other countries in America people consider themselves as Americans by definition. It's not part of the regular conversations because people don't tend to refer to themselves by their continent first. But belonging to that continent is assumed. I totally understand you live in a country where a big chunk of the population thinks they are not part of their continent but that's a bit of an exception when you look at the larger picture of the world.

Only in English. There's a larger world out there. Native English speakers are roughly 6% of the population. For the rest of the world America is the continent.

Which was ridiculous in the first place. Like I said, it's like, say, Norway Sweden and Denmark suddenly deciding to become The United States of Europe and claiming the name European just for themselves and start calling the rest Mediterraneans, Eastern Europeans and so on.

My partner lived in the UK through Brexit and would always make fun when some Brits would say that they're no longer part of Europe asking them if they lifted the anchor and sailed somewhere else.

No. That's incorrect. English speaking people might think that. But that's not the case in the rest of the world. Starting with the rest of America, as mentioned, but in the rest of the world it's the same. French wiki for America = the whole continent https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amérique German wiki for America = the whole continent https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika Italian wiki for America = the whole continent https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America Portuguese wiki for America = the whole continent https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/América Danish wiki for America = the whole continent https://da.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika Polish wiki for America = the whole continent https://pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameryka Russian wiki for America = the whole continent https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Америка Chinese wiki for America = the whole continent https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/美洲 And so on.

"America" as a name was originally given to the lands reached by Columbus so central/south America and later on extended to the rest of the continent. To the rest of America, (maybe excluding Canada?) they are the United States. Los Estados Unidos. Claiming the name of the whole continent for themselves is as ridiculous as if a new country formed by, let's say, Norway and Sweden called themselves United States of Europe and insisted their citizens were Europeans and people from the rest of the continent were not.

And yes, in the rest of America the notion of the new Pope being the first American Pope is absurd. Pope Frances was the first one.

Of course a argentieans or from any other country in North or South America call themselves Americans. The same as any french, german, spanish, italian, swede and so on call themselves Europeans. Historically, the name America was originally used for South America after the Columbus voyages. In the rest of American countries people think it's ridiculous/arrogant/uneducated how people from the United States have tried to take over the word.

Sadly, based on what you see online, a significant chunk of the US population seems to be very self centered so unless it affects them directly they won't care.

Yas queen

And that's with all the surgery and brands. Underneath it all you have this, but 25 years older