Make America Great Again

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

For many within the US the word America means one thing - the United States of America. But President Trump’s use of it as a campaign tool sparked anger to the south of the US border. For those from Mexico to Chile “America” is the continent and they too are Americans. Katy Watson explores why the US became America and what it tells us about relations with the rest of the continent in the Trump era.

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0:00.0	From the BBC World Service, welcome to the latest edition of the documentary podcast.
0:06.0	Every week we bring you a range of stories from our presenters and reporters across the world.
0:11.0	Please do rate the documentary on your podcast app and leave a
0:14.7	comment. Let us know what you think. We are going to start winning again. I'm
0:20.9	Katie Watson and this is Make America Great Again.
0:24.0	We are going to make America so great again,
0:28.0	maybe greater than ever before.
0:30.0	I love you all.
0:32.0	Thank you for freedom
0:35.0	President Trump's campaign to make America great again was clearly effective but pretty
0:41.0	divisive it's not uncommon to hear people from the US say that
0:45.2	America is the greatest country on earth, but for the millions of people living
0:49.7	south of the US, the word America is problematic. I've lived in Chile, Mexico and now Brazil and
0:57.0	the viewers shared across the region, but although the US considers America a country, for Latin Americans it's a continent.
1:05.6	It's not a question of being over sensitive.
1:08.1	It's about being politically and geographically correct.
1:12.4	It's one in the same, am I wrong?
1:15.0	Is the US different from America?
1:16.7	Is that something different?
1:17.9	First of all, America is a continent,
1:22.2	not United States only. There is some degree of confusion on that.
1:27.4	After the election of President Trump and while I was living in Mexico, the issue became more pronounced and highly politicized.
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