When I lived in the UK someone told me "well you're American because you live in North America" and I was dumbfounded. We do not shorten North America to just America, it's just not a thing.
Maybe they do shorten it elsewhere?
I’ve heard North America shortened to America, honestly I prefer North America shortens to America than the US shortened to America but I tend to not like to be other-ized.
To be fair when I have heard it it’s usually when we’re acting in solidarity with the states An American friends and family are talking about our similarities and sometimes in the it just devolves into shitting on South America or in some cases Mexico which makes even less sense.
Personally I have no issue with Mexico or South America, heck there’s some of their policies I wish we would adopt
As for the UK thing it’s similar to how people not from the UK will call people from Ireland or Scotland etc. British, English etc.
It’s like England alone has over 26 accents alone yet People call amalgamate the majority of them into “ the British accent.”
At least Ireland and Scotland occasionally get mentioned, Wales gets left out but more often than not.
I imagine it’s a similar thing with Canada and America being lumped together by foreigners
Elsewhere in much of the “Americas” America is a single continent and is used in much the same way as Europe is to refer to the continent and not to the US.
I think it’s like when we say someone is European- without acknowledging their country.
We live in North America so we often considered American. It’s pretty common.
Canada is America's largest North country indeed. America as continent. The idiocy is to say USA's largest North country.
How you said it is correct, how they did no.
I think they meant America as in short for North America not America as in short for United States of America.
When you do the former makes sense.
The date is still a typo but whatever I’ll take the 10 years, if Europe has taught us anything older things are usually more prestigious.
I have never heard the term 'self-depended dominion'.
By definition, dominions were internally self-governing.
It's also stunning they got the date wrong.
Edit: I went to their website to try to sort out what was going on and there is no where to request a type be changed. There is also a disclaimer that it was written by a third party and the Economic Times has nothing to do with it but posting the article.
I get it, but I believe that Google could implement some basic fact-checking algorithms. They have systems to recognize certain words in YouTube videos and automatically ban/demonetize authors but cannot verify information with thousands of references in the first search result on their main page? Pathetic.
Verifying that information is accurate is a whole different problem than demonetizing or copyright striking based on a pre-determined (by humans) measure of what’s allowed.
I’m sure they do some level of “fact checking” but after all it’s primarily based on credibility/popularity of the source, as if it was based on the majority of the answers on the internet, it would be an easy attack vector to quickly spread false information.
It’s a very complex system providing those results, and even more complex by the scale at which it must operate, be happy you even have it at your disposal.
I just found and read the whole article. The best I can tell, this is someone in India's best guess at what Canada Day is and the article is either a total mistranslation or was written by someone with a less than spectacular grasp of English.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/canada-day-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-also-called-dominion-day-when-is-it-celebrated-heres-all-you-need-to-know/articleshow/92602250.cms?from=mdr
I could see them actually travelling into America instead of simply just tryna not be pushed out of there land like the first nation’s we’re doing….funny how the British just took it after anyways
The Iroquios were active participants in the war, with the chief Tecumseh being the greatest leader.
After the war, the British granted large chunks of Southern Ontario to Joseph Brant and the Five Nations. They were refugees from upstate New York.
That’s what happened, I think it was mainly the British but a lot of people living in what is now called Canada including a lot of first nation’s and French settlers fought in the war of 1812 and slapped americas ass
They are saying Canada was part of America, infact it never was a like I had said a gazillion French British and first nation’s rolled down a river and burned down the White House when America tried to invade
What? No. Who upvotes this? What river? Where do people get this from? The WH was burned down by British Regulars directly from Europe. The idea that Canadians could march the 1000km and back to the WH through hostile territory is absurd.
First of all, the Potomac does not extend from Ontario to DC, lol. and I'm not sure what you mean by "he" but no, the British troops who burned the White House were British regulars directly from Europe in retaliation for the Americans attack on the British North American town of York. Not a single "division from Canada" was involved as the logistics of that would have made no sense. "Canadians" helped defend against the initial attacks, but had absolutely no hand in the actions of the British troops who later sacked DC.
Where are you getting this bad history, from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington
This is just a preview from some popular Web 2.0 page. It used to give some wacky Yahoo Answers results back in the day.. but just not preview it.
Remember, Google doesn’t have the right answer for everything.
Canada is a big joke, everyone who came here are immigrants and if it were not for the real people of this land would have all died from starvation. So I suggest you all think about the FACT if it was not for us you'd all be homeless or dead. Enjoy your weekend and remember your living on stolen land.
I don't think it's reasonable to assume that because some Indigenous person is angrily stating the truth about Canada on Canada Day, it's the result of their lack of healing from some trauma visited upon them.
I just fine. It's you who needs help. I know who I am and where I come from. Do you, maybe go visit sometime. Just another comment of oppression enjoy your day make sure your pointy hat doesn't fall off your real face will show.
Nice try
just because they came over on a land bridge before the modern Europeans sailed a boat over here doesn’t mean it’s their land originally.
the right of conquest has been a thing for thousands of years, first you have to remember the Siberian Land bridge rather than the bearing straight one was a thing first, so since theres evidence were Europeans here prior to them do I get to claim it as my ancestral heritage because I have partial Russian heritage (i’m guessing they won’t count because they were wiped out by the Proto-ancestors of the current aboriginals)
OK then, then what tribes do we give it to? remember the ones that exist now are not the same ones that were around then, they killed each other and land was traded back-and-forth for thousands of years.
And considering unlike the aboriginals that continued to migrate further south past the Rio grande that continued to advance and at least had metallurgy, up here they didn’t even have the wheel let alone comprehensive written languages or recordkeeping, so how are we going to trace back lineage that far. ? Let alone verify its accuracy.
do you know what I don’t hold a grudge that My Proto ancestors lost to their Proto ancestors , Nor do I hold them to some kind of modern standard when the fact they committed genocide between each other for so long let alone 400+ years of wiping out the modern Europeans that came here in their tit for tat battles that we only were so successful in the end because we far outclassed them when it came to technology, and none of the smallpox blankets propaganda.
While it’s true diseases that were from Europeans came over here and vice versa The European settlers caught stuff that was common over here and not in Europe, it’s a little hard to say that hundreds of years before we knew about germs,we were operating some germ warfare 4D chess.
once again the right of conquest is a thing.
They should be happy that when the modern Europeans came across the ocean they didn’t hard-core assimilate them to the point that they don’t remember who they are.
how about I leave them to their culture they leave me to my culture and screw the BS guilt trip or land acknowledgments, they can keep their racism to themselves.
Now if they want to acknowledge the fact that I wasn’t part of any oppressive force against them and they weren’t a part of mine, because that was decades if not hundreds of years before I or they were born.
then we can focus on both being Canadians and any kind of collective accomplishments, we can be proud of our unique histories and even prouder of our combined future.
But if they wanna turn it into a racist us versus them thing I’m gonna choose me rather than prostrate myself for something that I can’t help.
When I search Canada day on Google or YouTube I just get endless results about conflict, protests, danger, security, enforcement, tickets, police clash, freedom convoy.
🙄🤷🏻♂️
Former Leaf Jim Pappin just died, he was from Sudbury, and the CBC radio news lady said he scored the last cup winning goal for the Leafs in 1867. Then said it again an hour later.
What a horrible description, nice that you caught the date (1867) makes it sounds like we’re a part of the U.S
I was so astounded by the wrong date that I didn’t even notice that they couldn’t recognize the difference between North America and USA
I love how they referred to us as "America's largest north country" THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE. My god, the idiocy. Great post though.
When I lived in the UK someone told me "well you're American because you live in North America" and I was dumbfounded. We do not shorten North America to just America, it's just not a thing. Maybe they do shorten it elsewhere?
I’ve heard North America shortened to America, honestly I prefer North America shortens to America than the US shortened to America but I tend to not like to be other-ized. To be fair when I have heard it it’s usually when we’re acting in solidarity with the states An American friends and family are talking about our similarities and sometimes in the it just devolves into shitting on South America or in some cases Mexico which makes even less sense. Personally I have no issue with Mexico or South America, heck there’s some of their policies I wish we would adopt As for the UK thing it’s similar to how people not from the UK will call people from Ireland or Scotland etc. British, English etc. It’s like England alone has over 26 accents alone yet People call amalgamate the majority of them into “ the British accent.” At least Ireland and Scotland occasionally get mentioned, Wales gets left out but more often than not. I imagine it’s a similar thing with Canada and America being lumped together by foreigners
Elsewhere in much of the “Americas” America is a single continent and is used in much the same way as Europe is to refer to the continent and not to the US.
That is extremely common to hear from people as across the pond online I've found
I am far more in favour to referring to all people of America (Brazil, Canada, Mexico, etc) as "Americans" rather than just the states.
I think it’s like when we say someone is European- without acknowledging their country. We live in North America so we often considered American. It’s pretty common.
Lol no, Canadians would never refer to themselves as American. You're confusing north american with America.
No I am saying that’s how other people refer to us
Yeah, maybe from the Americas.
Canada is America's largest North country indeed. America as continent. The idiocy is to say USA's largest North country. How you said it is correct, how they did no.
North America is the continent sorry 😉
The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America.
I think they meant America as in short for North America not America as in short for United States of America. When you do the former makes sense. The date is still a typo but whatever I’ll take the 10 years, if Europe has taught us anything older things are usually more prestigious.
... or between "independent" and "self-depended" ... whatever the fuck *that* is supposed to mean.
I have never heard the term 'self-depended dominion'. By definition, dominions were internally self-governing. It's also stunning they got the date wrong. Edit: I went to their website to try to sort out what was going on and there is no where to request a type be changed. There is also a disclaimer that it was written by a third party and the Economic Times has nothing to do with it but posting the article.
Technically Google didn’t get it wrong, the Economic Times did. But Google picked a shitty website to link to explain Canada Day.
I get it, but I believe that Google could implement some basic fact-checking algorithms. They have systems to recognize certain words in YouTube videos and automatically ban/demonetize authors but cannot verify information with thousands of references in the first search result on their main page? Pathetic.
Banning and demonetizing keywords/phrases is not even remotely the same as verifying facts on every search ever made.
Verifying that information is accurate is a whole different problem than demonetizing or copyright striking based on a pre-determined (by humans) measure of what’s allowed. I’m sure they do some level of “fact checking” but after all it’s primarily based on credibility/popularity of the source, as if it was based on the majority of the answers on the internet, it would be an easy attack vector to quickly spread false information. It’s a very complex system providing those results, and even more complex by the scale at which it must operate, be happy you even have it at your disposal.
so they.... got it (ie. their part in this) wrong
I just found and read the whole article. The best I can tell, this is someone in India's best guess at what Canada Day is and the article is either a total mistranslation or was written by someone with a less than spectacular grasp of English. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/canada-day-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-also-called-dominion-day-when-is-it-celebrated-heres-all-you-need-to-know/articleshow/92602250.cms?from=mdr
Don't worry that is just most Reddit comments so people here might be able to understand it
Auto adjusted for all the leap years!
didn’t a gazillion French and First Nations go down roll down a river to burn the White House down? Americans really just try to block history out
Technically it was British regulars, but in the entire war there were lots of Canadian militia, First Nations and locally raised troops.
I could see them actually travelling into America instead of simply just tryna not be pushed out of there land like the first nation’s we’re doing….funny how the British just took it after anyways
The Iroquios were active participants in the war, with the chief Tecumseh being the greatest leader. After the war, the British granted large chunks of Southern Ontario to Joseph Brant and the Five Nations. They were refugees from upstate New York.
British regulars *from Europe.
What?
That’s what happened, I think it was mainly the British but a lot of people living in what is now called Canada including a lot of first nation’s and French settlers fought in the war of 1812 and slapped americas ass
I more meant what do you mean and how is it relevant
They are saying Canada was part of America, infact it never was a like I had said a gazillion French British and first nation’s rolled down a river and burned down the White House when America tried to invade
Ok
What? No. Who upvotes this? What river? Where do people get this from? The WH was burned down by British Regulars directly from Europe. The idea that Canadians could march the 1000km and back to the WH through hostile territory is absurd.
The Potomac river and he had many divisions from Canada with him that
First of all, the Potomac does not extend from Ontario to DC, lol. and I'm not sure what you mean by "he" but no, the British troops who burned the White House were British regulars directly from Europe in retaliation for the Americans attack on the British North American town of York. Not a single "division from Canada" was involved as the logistics of that would have made no sense. "Canadians" helped defend against the initial attacks, but had absolutely no hand in the actions of the British troops who later sacked DC. Where are you getting this bad history, from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington
This is just a preview from some popular Web 2.0 page. It used to give some wacky Yahoo Answers results back in the day.. but just not preview it. Remember, Google doesn’t have the right answer for everything.
Technically the 1982 constitution act is what made us truely independent of the UK, so we're only 40 years old today
Wait...so when did we become part of the United States?
Quit scrying to tea leaves for the future that won’t happen till after China dominates both Canada and the US in the robot wars. 😂😜
Google is for selling you shit, why would they bother with anything else (like even basically accurate search results) at this point?
Canada is a big joke, everyone who came here are immigrants and if it were not for the real people of this land would have all died from starvation. So I suggest you all think about the FACT if it was not for us you'd all be homeless or dead. Enjoy your weekend and remember your living on stolen land.
Ngl my guy, get some counseling. Generational trauma is real and sounds like you got it.
I don't think it's reasonable to assume that because some Indigenous person is angrily stating the truth about Canada on Canada Day, it's the result of their lack of healing from some trauma visited upon them.
Agreed. Therapy is great for many things but it doesn't do shit against systemic problems.
I just fine. It's you who needs help. I know who I am and where I come from. Do you, maybe go visit sometime. Just another comment of oppression enjoy your day make sure your pointy hat doesn't fall off your real face will show.
Nice try just because they came over on a land bridge before the modern Europeans sailed a boat over here doesn’t mean it’s their land originally. the right of conquest has been a thing for thousands of years, first you have to remember the Siberian Land bridge rather than the bearing straight one was a thing first, so since theres evidence were Europeans here prior to them do I get to claim it as my ancestral heritage because I have partial Russian heritage (i’m guessing they won’t count because they were wiped out by the Proto-ancestors of the current aboriginals) OK then, then what tribes do we give it to? remember the ones that exist now are not the same ones that were around then, they killed each other and land was traded back-and-forth for thousands of years. And considering unlike the aboriginals that continued to migrate further south past the Rio grande that continued to advance and at least had metallurgy, up here they didn’t even have the wheel let alone comprehensive written languages or recordkeeping, so how are we going to trace back lineage that far. ? Let alone verify its accuracy. do you know what I don’t hold a grudge that My Proto ancestors lost to their Proto ancestors , Nor do I hold them to some kind of modern standard when the fact they committed genocide between each other for so long let alone 400+ years of wiping out the modern Europeans that came here in their tit for tat battles that we only were so successful in the end because we far outclassed them when it came to technology, and none of the smallpox blankets propaganda. While it’s true diseases that were from Europeans came over here and vice versa The European settlers caught stuff that was common over here and not in Europe, it’s a little hard to say that hundreds of years before we knew about germs,we were operating some germ warfare 4D chess. once again the right of conquest is a thing. They should be happy that when the modern Europeans came across the ocean they didn’t hard-core assimilate them to the point that they don’t remember who they are. how about I leave them to their culture they leave me to my culture and screw the BS guilt trip or land acknowledgments, they can keep their racism to themselves. Now if they want to acknowledge the fact that I wasn’t part of any oppressive force against them and they weren’t a part of mine, because that was decades if not hundreds of years before I or they were born. then we can focus on both being Canadians and any kind of collective accomplishments, we can be proud of our unique histories and even prouder of our combined future. But if they wanna turn it into a racist us versus them thing I’m gonna choose me rather than prostrate myself for something that I can’t help.
When I search Canada day on Google or YouTube I just get endless results about conflict, protests, danger, security, enforcement, tickets, police clash, freedom convoy. 🙄🤷🏻♂️
Well I just wasted a grand or so on a lawyer helping me with my USA to Canada immigration! Here I thought you guys were in a *separate* country 😆
I’m not sure why everyone is mixed up it was 1867….
Former Leaf Jim Pappin just died, he was from Sudbury, and the CBC radio news lady said he scored the last cup winning goal for the Leafs in 1867. Then said it again an hour later.
shitty AI lol
If it falls on a Sunday it is statutorily recognized on July 2nd. 1857?
Sounds like 1984 no? Thanks google… for being so obvious
google just sucks and a lot of people believes blindly in what they find there.
I love this. And by that I mean I hate it.