Once dismissed as fake, Maya calendar is Americas’ oldest manuscript

Which Christians -- and where -- are calling for the blood of their enemy because of Christianity?

How many are killed? Google tells me it was eight people in total regarding abortion clinics in the US. Over decades.

(Edit: I can tell you that the main Swedish church refuses to criticise the people oppressing, murdering and expelling Christians from Gaza and Egypt. They criticize Israel literally thousands of times more. This seems to be more because they were pirated by left wing extremists than by nazi influence.)

That WP page points to http://lema.rae.es/dpd/?key=norteamerica , which says:

> Tanto América del Norte como Norteamérica son designaciones correctas del subcontinente americano que engloba el conjunto de países situados al norte de México y al propio México.

> [Both 'America of the North' and 'North America' are correct designations of the American subcontinent which encompasses the union of the countries north of Mexico and Mexico itself.]

The second definition points out that in Spanish, "North America" is often used as a synonym for the US, with the lovely example:

> En América, solamente la República Argentina tiene organizados sus cultivos usando tecnología moderna, exceptuando Canadá y Norteamérica

> [In America, only the Argentine Republic has organized their crops using modern technology, except Canada and North America]

If you grew up learning that your country was part of America-the-continent, then I can easily see why it's irritating to have others say that it isn't.

I am wary about justifying something with "Just how the terminology evolved". Sometimes language evolves for malicious purposes, or to enforce certain cultural prejudices. Look at recent HN discussions on how "expat" is a high status word for "temporary guest worker from a rich country", or how "jaywalker" was invented to castigate pedestrians who don't give way to drivers.

It is malicious, but so ingrained into the psyche that the malice is forgotten by those into whom it was perpetuated. It is saying that the rest of the continent isn't American, somehow, that when you talk about American dreams and American ideals and the promise of freedom that America once meant to Europeans, you are definitely not extending those promises, dreams, and aspirations to the rest of America. Even the Lebanese diaspora that arrived in Mexico and Colombia (Salma Hayek, Shakira Mebarak, Carlos Slim, Demian Bíchir) were travellers aiming for America and her promises.

"America" is a very loaded term, even when used to refer to the United States. People use it differently. United States is more formal, America more aspirational. Well, the rest of America also has these aspirations. Like Morelos wrote, "That prohibit slavery forever, as the distinction of caste, being all equal and only vice and virtue distinguish an American from the other."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimientos_de_la_Naci%C3%B3n

A whole immense garden, this is America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL3u7qU_09w

In theory, but not in practice. I mean, even in los Estados Unidos Mexicanos [0], the phrase Estados Unidos without qualification invariably and without confusion refers to the USA, and the things and people belonging to their northern neighbor are described with the adjective "estadounidense".

[0] Which, AFAIK, no one ever actually refers to as such in conversation, and there have even been recent proposals to change the official name to simply México.

Latin Americans will use America/Americas interchanagebly

Europeans aremost likely to refer to the US as "america" one