The Americas

I found the reading from the packet to be really interesting because I dont understand why they would separate nations about being an american. that when i went to mexico to visit my family, the people from there would tell me that i was an american, they would say that i am a notreamericano. I just found that interesting because they did not refer me as just an american, but an american from the north. It explains that there are many names for americans such as Anglos, Afros, indios, Latinos, Caucasian. I think it is just odd the people from North America just refer to themselves as Americans, and they call one another different names, in which we are all from and in the Americas, no matter if its the North or the South.