How to get rich in America

Re:How to get rich in America by HugoDaniel on Thursday February 16, 2017 @06:34AM (#13659104)

By America they mean the country "USA". Not Brazil or Mexico or any other part of America. Given the salary inequality between the USA and most of the other countries in America it is easy to automatically imply that you only need to be in the USA to get rich in America.

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Re:How to get rich in America by vthallam on Thursday February 16, 2017 @06:51AM (#13659165)

I know America is a continent and all that, but more often than not people refer America to USA.

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Re:How to get rich in America by GFischer on Thursday February 16, 2017 @06:54AM (#13659176)

Only in the U.S./English.

If you refer to "America" in Spanish it's assumed you're referring to the continent, the state is commonly referred to as the United States or the United States of America.

We actually call ourselves Americans here in Uruguay.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uso_de_la_palabra_americano

"En el uso tradicional a los naturales de América como continente.

En un segundo término, a los ciudadanos de Estados Unidos de América, uso derivado de la influencia lingüística inglesa."

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Re:How to get rich in America by aninhumer on Thursday February 16, 2017 @07:17AM (#13659305)

And if you refer to "Spain" in Spanish, people will be similarly confused. But we're not speaking Spanish.

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Re:How to get rich in America by dgrealy on Thursday February 16, 2017 @06:58AM (#13659190)

I checked the page source, and it turns out the entire article is written in English.

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Re:How to get rich in America by HugoDaniel on Thursday February 16, 2017 @09:22AM (#13660025)

Yes i think that is common knowledge. But it is not a common thing in international economics news sites.

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Re:How to get rich in America by juanito on Thursday February 16, 2017 @06:44AM (#13659136)

I know it's very confusing to a lot of people, but USA stands for United States of America. It's also the only country in the world that has America in its name.

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Re:How to get rich in America by GFischer on Thursday February 16, 2017 @06:51AM (#13659169)

Ironically it's not the only United States in America (but it is the only one with America in the name I believe)

Mexico is the United States of Mexico, there also were United States of Colombia, United States of Venezuela (now renamed to simply Venezuela), etc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico (Wikipedia doesn't show the official name in the title)

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

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

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Re:How to get rich in America by dgrealy on Thursday February 16, 2017 @06:56AM (#13659184)

Thanks for pointing that out. So insightful. Also definitely thanks for clarifying the total confusion about what is meant by "in America". I thought to myself, "Now wait just a minute. Do they mean the USA? Because all those other countries must feel offended if so."

Also, I thought, "it's so true that the American economy is orders of magnitude stronger than other nations. Clearly this is because of an empire of oppression built upon the same small-minded chauvinism which leads Americans to refer to themselves as Americans."

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