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Originally Posted by Confed999
Yeah, they would be North Americans, Central Americans, or South Americans. I am a Floridian, an American (a citizen of the USA), and a North American. What did you want the author to do, list every country in Europe individually?
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Confed,
The point is, the author wants us to think of Europe as a cohesive political state/entity, which I argue it is not. While you and I may be considered North Americans because of where we live, there is no political state/entity called North America. We cannot say the North Americans are for or against this or that, frankly because Mexico, Canada, and the US do not share a common political vision. Hopefully this makes it more clear as to the difference between a geographic location and a political state/entity.
Don