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Only go to good parts. Like Mexico and South America in general.
by Ekaros 7mo ago
Only go to good parts. Like Mexico and South America in general.
- jeffrallen 7mo agoCanada's ok, but only in May and October. The rest of the year is ice and/or black fly season.
- ishouldstayaway 7mo agoIn English, "America" means the USA specifically. But you knew that already and decided to just post bait.
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- calderarrow 7mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour
- shimman 7mo agoSeems too subjective. I don't think it'll take off.
- ishouldstayaway 7mo agoHey look judging from how this thread evolved in the last several hours, at least it turned out that the bait worked and a bunch of people were dumb enough to take it? ha ha
- smarf 7mo agoor, perhaps, they are wryly pushing back against the USA capturing a generic geographic term for themselves
- triceratops 7mo agoTo be fair though, that horse bolted a couple of centuries ago. What other name would you call it by? There's another "united states" on the same continent. The country to the immediate south is formally known as the "United Mexican States".
- Brian_K_White 7mo agoBut the whole hemisphere is not "Mexico". USA and Canada are not also "North Mexico". Their harmless little reminder is more correct than any of the attempted arguments against it.
- triceratops 7mo agoIt was the first group of united states on the continent. North America was, relative to the land that became Mexico, thinly peopled. Unlike in Mexico there was no pre-colonial, indigenous empire that had ruled and named the land which eventually became the 13 colonies. So there wasn't necessarily a better alternative to put after "United States of" at the time. Do you know of one?
- nobody9999 7mo ago>Unlike in Mexico there was no pre-colonial, indigenous empire that had ruled and named the land which eventually became the 13 colonies. Actually, there were multiple indigenous political entities both along the Eastern Seaboard (where we find those 13 colonies) as well as across what is now the US and Canada[0]. We just took their land and killed most of them, but they were still pretty organized -- with political groupings of various types. [0] https://scholar.flatworldknowledge.com/books/32177/ourhistory_vol1-32698-20190228-133137-189989/preview https://scholar.flatworldknowledge.com/books/32177/ourhistor...
- triceratops 7mo agoWhere's the Tenochtitlan of the 13 colonies? Of course colonists committed genocide against indigenous people everywhere they went. No one's denying that. I'm addressing precisely what you yourself said > there were multiple indigenous political entities both along the Eastern Seaboard They were fragmented and smaller than the Aztec empire. That doesn't make it right to take their land. It does explain why their names didn't apply to the entire land. Because none of them was so big and centralized. If you look at the geographical features of the Eastern seaboard - mountains, lakes, streams, rivers, cities and towns, even 2 states (Massachusetts, Connecticut) - native names abound. The lands that became the US and Canada really did have fewer people living on them than the lands that became Mexico. [1] Again because Mexico had centralized states and large-scale agriculture capable of supporting large populations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indi...
- chb 7mo agoSo was Trump being inclusive or exclusive when he renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America?
- ishouldstayaway 7mo agoInstead, try commenting in good faith.
- gib444 7mo agoTimes are a changing. We can change the English language on this matter too (or more accurately, it might end up changing). It is something that needs correcting tbh. The USA does not own the Americas.