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Originally Posted by ngdawg
Well, it's really semantics when looked at that way, since this entire hemisphere is 'America', but divided as South, Central and North. We could say someone from Brazil who has never left their country is 'Brazilian-American', but we don't. It's a given that the US is what is meant with the hyphenations.
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Last interjection, I swear - techinically Brazilians are Americans. America is a continent, not a country. It's the United States
OF America. Canadians are just as much Americans as those who live in the United States.
It's messy, I agree, but I thought that it was a point worth making here. That way, our "Canadian-American" brothers and sisters don't get their collective panties in a wad.