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It's incorrect but widely assumed that if someone says "America" they mean the USA. What's funny about it?
> Americans are the citizens and nationals of the United States of America.
It's a testament to how effective propaganda can be when you see how easily you can get people to vote against their own interests. It's crazy to me that anyone who works in these Amazon warehouses votes agains tunionization but they do [1]. Even in the successful vote, there were still a lot of "no" votes. Unionization in the US is the lowest of all OECD nations (~10%) [2]. Is it any wonder US workers don't get paid…
Or maybe it's you who has fallen for propaganda. I think it's most likely that they know their own interests better than you do.
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It's incorrect but widely assumed that if someone says "America" they mean the USA. What's funny about it?
That Canada is also located in America, and if someone from Canada identifies "America" with the US they are belittling their own country? I mean, the sentence wouldn't have been less understandable if they had used "US-style" instead of "American-style"?
It's a testament to how effective propaganda can be when you see how easily you can get people to vote against their own interests. It's crazy to me that anyone who works in these Amazon warehouses votes agains tunionization but they do [1]. Even in the successful vote, there were still a lot of "no" votes. Unionization in the US is the lowest of all OECD nations (~10%) [2]. Is it any wonder US workers don't get paid…
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It's incorrect but widely assumed that if someone says "America" they mean the USA. What's funny about it?
That Canada is also located in America, and if someone from Canada identifies "America" with the US they are belittling their own country? I mean, the sentence wouldn't have been less understandable if they had used "US-style" instead of "American-style"?
There isn't even a contient named "America"
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Or maybe it's you who has fallen for propaganda. I think it's most likely that they know their own interests better than you do.
Whatever their interests are, they will be easier to achieve by unionizing. Not organizing only makes your interests irrelevant. That can hardly be in anyones own interests.
For example, say you're a talented younger worker and the majority of the union votes for pay by seniority, that's going against your interests.
Note: this website often contains highly unreliable material and often publishes articles defending such things as the Berlin Wall.
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It's incorrect but widely assumed that if someone says "America" they mean the USA. What's funny about it?
That Canada is also located in America, and if someone from Canada identifies "America" with the US they are belittling their own country? I mean, the sentence wouldn't have been less understandable if they had used "US-style" instead of "American-style"?
I didn't downvote you but to explain what you see as an inconsistency: all forms of language and terms don't always match the mathematical/geometric/spatial definitions.
- geometry view: North America is the continent and both Canada & USA are spatial subsets
- conversational language view: "America" is linguistically used as synonym for "USA" without any confusion because of context
Same idea as recent news headlines that say, "Asian powers are unlikely to ease Russia's economic woes"[1]
If one is stuck on the geography fact that Russia is actually the largest country in Asia and bigger than China, that headline makes no sense. (Why can't an Asian power like Russia ease its economic woes?!?) But if you accept that "Asia powers" is often a synonym for "China/India" that excludes Russia, the intended meaning can be parsed.
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=Asian+powers+are+unlikely+to...
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