Once upon a time, Roger Traviss wrote:

And speaking of post-colonial guilt why do Brits insist on calling North
America "America" and ****ing off the Canadians, Mexicans, the people of the
Caribbean Islands etc., by calling us all "Americans"?

Probably for the same reason lots of North Americans insist on referring
to Scotland and Wales as "England", thereby ****ing off lots of us over
here.

America and Americans refers ONLY to the peoples of the U.S. of A. The
continent is correctly called North America, no matter what you may think.

Would probably help if that was taught in schools, it wasn't when I
went.

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- The Iron Jelloid