Read the following text to answer the
question bellow:
The use of the word ‘America’ in the singular
and without an adjective may shock the reader. In
the expressions ‘God bless America’ or ‘Make
America great again’, the part is taken for the whole.
In Latin America, people speak more accurately
of the Americas - Las Americas. ‘America’ was
the baptismal name given in I507 by the German
cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Diédes-Vosges, based on the voyage of the Italian
Amerigo Vespucci to only the southern half of the
Western hemisphere. The symbolic cornering of its
two continents by English-speaking and Protestant
America, ignoring the Romance languages and
Catholic traditions in the rest of the New World, has
since expressed the relationship of forces between
them. In what follows, the word designates less a
state and a territory than a certain form of civilization.
DEBRAY, Regis. Civilization. How we all became
American. Verso: London, 2019.
According to the text, what does the use of the term
‘America’ without an adjective signify in the context
of English-speaking and Protestant America?