Oh lord. Insult of insults today :rofl:

[whatthehey]

15. The perception though is global

It is a minority in CA and some parts of Central/South America who are the outliers. Search any English language foreign newpaper you like, from the London Times to the Times of India (love the latter myself. Far higher quality writing than here) and "American......" will always refer to US unless continental reach is specified, often as a focus of the article. Speaking of American warships being deployed to patrol the waters bewteen Argentina and the Falklands when those are Argentine gunboats would be perversely confusing for the sake of contrived inclusion. It's not just US exceptionalism that made this so. Oscar Wilde, Stephen Fry, Charles Dickens, wrote quite well about their time in America. They didn't mean Canada or Mexico, and they were/are certainly not exponents of American exceptionalism.

It's not technically correct, and it may rankle a few, but it is globally the norm and globally understood.