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Originally Posted by Acajack
I know, but that's just Americanization from media and pop culture, though.
Referring to Indigenous people in Canada as "Native Americans" actually makes no sense.
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Why not? In South America, students are taught that North and South America are one continent simply called America.
Culturally, they think of themselves as new world (largely immigrant populations account for much of South America's populace in the same was as they do in North America).
It's actually very insulting to tell someone in Argentina, Chile, or Brazil that you're "American". If you do so, they'll very often say something like, "yo tambien". i.e. "Me too".
So through that lense, you could make the argument calling someone "Native American" is to merely differentiate between indigenous people and immigrants, generically, across the continent.