[European who only read the title]
Isn't Canada already in America?
Isn't Canada already in America?
Some cultures (arbitrarily) recognize North America and South America as separate continents, whereas some others consider them to be one continent, called America.
Among many of the cultures that recognize two continents, the term “America” has drifted in meaning over time to colloquially refer to the USA. That is the sense in which “America” was meant in this headline.
Only in English speaking and non-American countries.
All of the Spanish speaking American countries are happy to call what everyone else calls "americans" "united-stateans", i.e. "estadounidense" in Spanish. Because of course it's stupid to call gringos "american", when the entire continent is called America.
This is also happening to Europe, in a lesser extent (for 2 reasons, first of which is that the EU isn't a country, and the 2nd is that most of European countries are in the EU). "European" is more often used to refer to an inhabitant of the European Union than it's used to refer to an inhabitant of Europe, the continent.
More seriously, if you weren't joking, Canada is in North America, the continent. America, the country, is the informal name of the United States of America.
But people refer to the USA as “America” even though Canada and Mexico are also in “North America” and all the countries in South America exist also.
Even so, nobody would refer to someone from those countries as “American”.
Maybe not in English, but it would be quite normal to do so in some other languages.