[ SECRET POST #2479 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2479 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

that's because neither country had the gall of apropiating the name of the entire continent to call themselves.

Really? That's what you're going with? Yes, they're called Americans just to appropriate the name of the entire continent. Fuck's sake.

Why is it okay to respect what you want to be called while, at the same time, it isn't okay to respect what they want to be called?

[lynx]

Uhm, well, I get you wouldn't want to be referred as "The 13 Colonies" forever, but the first time "America" is used to denote a nation instead of a whole continent is when you stated your Declaration of Independence; while the name "America" referred to the continent since 1507, making its appearance in the Cosmographiae Introductio by Mathias Ringmann, to honor Americo Vespucio.

We all had our own names for our own contries. Chile, Perú, Paragüay and Urugüay are all names that stem from indigenous words by the ethnic groups that populated the territories. Venezuela ("Little Venice") Argentina ("Silver-plated"), and Colombia (to honor Cristóbal Colón) were put there by the Conquistadores... Mexico was Mexico way before it became a federated state.

God, even Canada went with a variation of the indigenous name of the place to name themselves.

You took the name of the continent of America, and had enough political and philosophical influence in posterior European history to be acknowledged as "America" (the country); and after that the US went into becoming a World Power and the name got perpetuated around the world. And is it so hard to believe the rest of us feel erasured?