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It is politically loaded to many people who hear it. Testament to the fact: "Murica" is used as a joke word to refer to things such as giant hot dogs, big guns,
by jordigh 10y ago
It is politically loaded to many people who hear it. Testament to the fact: "Murica" is used as a joke word to refer to things such as giant hot dogs, big guns, or invading other countries. Further testament to the fact: the song America the Beautiful, the saying "God bless America", America, land of the free.
Using "United States" in any of these would sound awkward and wrong, right? "United States the beautiful"? That is because "America" is overwhelmingly used with positive connotations, but only for the US, and that is what I'm protesting. The rest of America also wants these positive connotations, but instead we get not-quite-America such as Latin America, South America, or some other-adjective-America.
- ocb 10y agoIt has political connotations in those specific contexts (and "Murica" is ironic critique of those political connotations). Now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism You're essentially arguing that it's a bad thing that this outdated nationalistic concept is not widely attributed to non-US states in the Americas.