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dickthegrouch

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12. I have and always will consider the term to encompass

Sat Nov 8, 2025, 02:23 PM

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Anyone with right of residency in any of the 43 national jurisdictions that comprise North, Central, and South America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_the_Americas

I absolutely hate the way many in the US have appropriated the term.

Even the Seal says "Seal of the President of the United States of America", and previous Presidents have always been careful to say "God bless the United States of America". (Although I abjure the term God in that statement).

I have always experienced the use of the term "American" in the news, in newspapers, in general discourse, as a term of exclusion.

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