Dont feel too bad. One day I was signing up for something & going thru the routine questions. I went thru the lists over & over & over again. I said "Hun, they dont have our country here. Only Latin & North America!" He looked at me like i had 20 heads & said, " I think you need to go back to school.." & he told everyone in my family. Now my mother & DH have never let me live that one down...
I remember working with a guy from Chile. I remember a conversation about being from America. He said, "Me too!" Took me a minute, but it made sense. North America, Central America, South America... makes you wonder why the US should have a monopoly on being "American". Heck, we even share North America with a few other countries.