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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I live closer to the Canadian border but I've never heard anyone call Mexico South America.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have and i live on the border of us/mexico basically. It's funny.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I haven't, and I also live on that border... Super weird haha.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

I live in America and have seen this attitude way too often.

Or , of course the alternate approach where everything south of Brownsville is “Mexico” or Brazil

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Central goes from Guatemala to Panama. Mexico still.north america, that's what I learned at school, unless americans change it.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But if we labelled the US as central it would be funny and probably piss off some bigots.

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We should call them wrong America

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

america's backroom

[–] odium@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Am American, when I was in school (just about 6 years ago), I was taught that everything above Panama is North America and below is South.

Central America wasn't considered a continent but just a way to label a region, similar to the label middle east. Central America was, as you described, below Mexico to above Colombia.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

this is correct

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don’t all South Americans speak Mexican? Except Brazil?

[–] Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago

speak Mexican

Lol

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Middle america or mid for short

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is already a middle america

[–] HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

now it's a tragedy

Now it's so sad to see, an upper-class city

Havin' this happenin',

[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

You'd think they would've included the whole continent of Souther America.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

It's funny cus so often when you hear North America, they just mean US + Canada. Never heard Mexico called South America outright but it's generally lumped in with all Spanish speaking countries (plus Brazil) south of the US.

[–] Ejh3k@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait until people learn what Mexico's real name is.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's the United Mexican States, if anyone's wondering.

[–] Ejh3k@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Estados Unidos Mexicanos

[–] Wardacus16@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did Helmut Marko make this meme?

[–] Joe@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 7 months ago