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I know, it's more a subconscious thing for me. Also the fact that for whatever reason in many countries of south america we consider north and south america a single continent, so the word "America" would generally refer to the whole continent.
What was the deleted comment above you?
That when refering to the whole continent, english speaking people use "the Americas", and "America" always refers to the US (in english)