I know, right? Most of us are.

Funny, I just googled Argentina (because that's where your profile says you're from) and obesity and tons of news stories popped up about the obesity rate soaring. 75% of males are overweight in your country, and you're calling us fat? Sounds like a case of the pot calling the kettle black to me.

Also, the poster is from CANADA. Americans are not Canadians. Maybe I should say something retarded back to you like "Argentinians can't read". Because apparently you can't.

so i'm just saying this because i can, so i'm sorry if i sound like a total bitch, but canadians are actually american. canada is a part of north america right? so TECHNICALLY they are american. just like indians are asian and french people are european, canadians are american. i mean no one really sees it that way because we just consider people in the USA american, which is whatever, but i'm just saying.

Sorry my dear, but Mexico is not considered North America. I actually looked it up and Mexico is not part of the Northern American people we seem to associate ourselves with. So fyl. Also, yes Canadians are northern Americans. No ******* shit. Why don't you ask them if they want to be included in that.

It's not North America? Oh well, it's south or central american then! Still Americans! Someone call the border patrol! Someone call the president! INJUSTICE!

Wait, I'm not European... Mexico is part of North America! But this whole debate was dumb because we all know that when people talk about Americans, they mean people from the USA. So quit pretending it is any different.

illegal immigration deals with COUNTRIES more than continents. and i'm the idiot?

#310, your comment was irrelevant to the entire debate. I'm not solely responsible for my country refusing to join in the North American Union or for my country refusing to completely open its borders. In fact, you have no idea what my views are on either of those issues. When people refer to Americans, they almost always mean people from the USA. Haven't you ever heard people from other countries insult people from my country? It's always "Americans are fat" or "Americans are dumb" or "All Americans love George W. Bush". I doubt that they were talking about Canadians or Mexicans when they made that statement.

Just the fact that your comment was a "what if" situation makes your comment irrelevant. I'm gonna go make some brownies to try to cheer up my roommate, but I'll be back later to further respond to your ranting.

Oh, I get it my dear. If you scroll up, you will see that I did not start the debate. I was originally responding to the asshole from Argentina who said most of us Americans are "fat as ****", even though his country has a soaring obesity rate as well. Now I realize that the US has a lot of obese people, but for some reason people from outside the US think that the only fat people in existence live here. Or at least they act that way on teh interwebs.

Yea I understand what you're saying. He wouldn't be able (or want, I would think) to say Americans if he was also considered an American. However, he could always say North Americans (which is more broad but still includes people from the US), or US citizens (though I doubt that he has that kind of vocabulary). I think even if we were all considered one big happy family of Americans, there would still be criticism on an individual country, it just makes people choose their words more carefully.