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[–] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

Peru is American. South American, but of the Americas nonetheless.

The US gets the word applied to itself because the name of the continent is actually included in the name of the country, hence the "United States of America".. which lends itself to the semantics of it all getting a bit sloppy.

But.. Argentinians, Brazilians, Canadians.. yup.. all American.

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