Re: OT: [I'm not even sure what to write here]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 11:52:29 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 04/06/2025 06:04, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:41:34 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:
 

And "American" can get a bit ambiguous. To part of the audience, it
might mean "from the American *continent*", to other part it might
mean "from the USA".

 
Definitely. Canadians are a bit touchy about it. USAian just never
caught on.  Then, as you say, there is the entire continent. If the USA
wasn't the 500 pound gorilla it might be like saying Africa. I assume
most people in the world can find the USA on a map where Guyana,
Belize, Honduras, and so forth would be a stretch.

 
Indeed. My knowledge of anything south of Mexico barring Argentina Peru
and Brazil is decididely sketchy.

Brazil is hard to miss and probably is the most important.  For historical
reasons they have a lot of Germans which may help. All those little
Central American countries are a different story. Argentina is newsworthy
because of permanent economic crisis.

The UK was never very involved in S America, probably to its detriment.

iirc the UK got rather upset about a little island with more sheep and
birds than people that is a long way from London.

Spanish are frightful snobs.

I've never experienced Spaniards from Spain that I know of.  However the
more European ancestry the better in Mexico and other Latin America
countries.