English translation:
Today in: Superheroes with denomination of origin issues.
"Oh, yeah? Well, let me tell you that I am Captain America around here."
This comic is particularly meaningful to me because using America to call the U.S., or Americans for gringos just didn't seem right. I mean, if I was born in the American continent, I am also an American, right? I know, I know... how would we call them otherwise? Gringos is definitely not politically correct. BBC used to have a nice way to fix this ambiguity of terms. They used to* split their News sections into continents, calling The Americas what in Spanish we are taught as America. I am sticking to that one, and I will not mind calling Americans, Americans.
*Currently the subdivided the Americas into US & Canada and Latin America.
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