iAmCaffeine wrote:Who classes Canadians and South Americans as just American?
I've seen cases where American can refer to the entire North American continent.
Remember in the case of the British isles, populations were always somewhat fluid over the early centuries. Here is a map of the population makeup in Roman times.
MIgrations, invasions, the fucking French Normans, all play a role in the population shifts over the centuries, something you don't see in the Americas because to an extent both Canada and the United States in their brief histories tended to put cultures into regional blenders and distributed them somewhat evenly all around the country. Mexico, on the other hand, is a different problem. I don't think they acknowledge that they were French at one point.