Of course, what we need to understand is that Americans are taught from a very early age that the world consists of two countries only - one is ‘The USA’, and the other one is ‘Not The USA’. This accounts for their total inability to understand, for instance, the simple, straightforward fact that Scotland and Wales are not ‘England’, or that the European Union and ‘Europe’ are not the same thing. Equally, they fail to comprehend that referring to a thread about Republic of Ireland politics as ‘UK Politics’ is as Inaccurate and ridiculous as calling a thread about Canadian politics, ‘US Politics’.