They're all the same sh*thole countries anyways with corrupt leaders full of murders and rapists right?
One let a TV clown run them into the ground, another is run by drug cartels, awful continent.
If I, a Ghanaian, have to constantly go by "African", then the US being lumped in with Hati shouldn't be inaccurate at all.
Weird you thought otherwise.
Canada - Canadians, Mexico - Mexicans, Brazil - Brazilians.
United States - ......United Statesians?
That's like people from the DRC calling themselves 'Democratic Republic of the Congolesians.' Nope, they just shortened it to Congolese. The United States of America just did the same thing. 'Americans.'
They all use it, and for the most part so do their neighbors.
Until some clever soul figures out a better way for the bologna of the North American sandwich to refer to it's citizens, the largest collection of English speakers on the planet will probably keep on trucking with the same boring term.
Indians?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
United States - Total English Speakers: 283,160,411
India - Total English Speakers: 246,344,737
That being said I think the table is wrong because the numbers don't add up to the total and also don't match the source. Based on that census India should have only 12.18% of English speakers, not 22.18%, so you should be correct in any cases.
The point isn't there should be a word for it, the point is Africa is not a damn country. Such obvious facetiousness but thick skulls can only fixate on "wHuT amErIcAnS Are thE US"
South Africa has as much in common Sudan as the US has with Haiti
There are plenty of countries on the continent than can (and have been) mapped by Google Maps.
Saying that Africa is somehow inhospitable to Google Maps is exactly like acting like North America is inhospitable to Google Maps because Haiti has bad roads.
Hell I'd take driving on the roads in that Haiti picture over some in places like "Chiraq", probably less chance of a bad outcome in a Google Maps car.
And I'm not sure what makes you think I'm not a native speaker of English.
Apparently you don't even understand blatant sarcasm, are you one?
I know it well.
> And I'm not sure what makes you think I'm not a native speaker of English.
You apparently don't know the definition of "American". I have never seen a native speaker make a mistake like that.
> Apparently you don't even understand blatant sarcasm, are you one?
I understand sarcasm just fine. Calling a Haitian road "American" is not sarcasm. Yes, English is my first and only language.
You said a picture was from the USA, and I doubted this, so I went and spent time chasing down the actual source. That's not facetiousness or sarcasm, that's either an innocent error, or misleading and antisocial. I interpreted it as innocent error, and attempted to politely correct your knowledge and explain, and now you reply with this argumentative comment, implying you deliberately attempted to mislead and waste our time. I won't reply further.
Person implies somehow Africa, the continent, is somehow unsuitable for Google maps vehicles (despite the fact Google has mapped hundreds of tens of thousands of miles in multiple countries in the continent)
This comes from treating all of Africa like it's one giant country with the same infrastructure everywhere.
I facetiously (a word you do NOT understand apparently) show a picture of Haiti, a North American country and say, since their roads are terrible all North American roads are terrible, and refer to an entire continent as if it were a single country that includes the US.
From here your subpar English skills fail you, to the point I'm forced to use a word somewhat similar to facetious but not quite as accurate (sarcasm) because the proper word is above your understanding.
Sometimes being imprecise allows a person with a challenged vocabulary such as yourself to catch up, but of course the Dunning-Kruger effect is in full force here, so you use it as an assertation that you're not the one failing to understand basic vocabulary.
It's a shame English is your only language and yet mastery of it escapes you.