Comments by "capmidnite" (@capmidnite) on "The US Military's Semiconductor Buying Problem" video.

Ah, Mitsubishi. The fabled Japanese zaibatsu which helped build and arm Japan from the Meiji Era to the modern era.
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Sorry, but "America" as short-hand for the USA has a long history of use and is not the same as calling China "Asia." The US was called "America" long before any other country in the Western hemisphere became independent.
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@inomo A Mexican, Canadian or even an inhabitant of the USA is "North American."
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@inomo What do you mean by "wrong" and "right"? Geographic labels of nations and cultures are often not precise or "right." Why is the Netherlands sometimes referred to as "Holland" when Holland is just a province in that country? Are Russians Asian or European (most of their landmass is in Asia)? Why are Japanese, Koreans and Chinese referred to as East Asian but Russians in Vladivostok aren't? Why is the West called the "West" when to an African it is NORTH of them?
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@inomo I don't know why are you are so fixated on identifying what continent you are from. I've met Peruvians, Brazilians, etc that easily say they're from South America. Or Guatemalans, El Salvadorians that say they're from Latin America. Or Jamaicans that say they're from the Caribbean. For whatever reason, Mexicans and Canadians only say what country they're from so I guess they're stuck with the existential angst of being "American" but not a US American. You really are stuck in a quixotic struggle against this "American" terminology.
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@inomo What free, independent and sovereign country existed in the Western hemisphere before the US? I'm aware the New World was referred to as the Americas since the days of exploration. Anyway, the new country at its inception in 1776 was called "The United States of America" and its citizens became known as " Americans." Monroe Doctrine came in the 1820s.
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@fannyalbi9040 North America includes Canada, Mexico (and the smaller countries below it) and the United States. Canada is a sovereign nation.
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@موسى_7 You can "believe" what you want, North and South America are separate and there are 7 continents. Some people say "Eurasia" is one continent but it is widely accepted Europe and Asia are in fact separate, to give another example.
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@inomo You must sound a bit idiotic telling people everywhere you go you are "American" and then having to clarify you're not from the United States.
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You seem hung up on the wrongness of calling the USA "America." So tell me, why do people refer to the Spanish language and Spanish-speaking countries when the languages spoken in Spain are Castilian, Catalan and Basque? That seems wrong. We should be referring to "Castilian-speaking countries."
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