Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 week agoI did not say in China. Google Maps says “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in most of the world. It sure is here in Britain.
Also, calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America is a clear claim of ownership.
raef@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Mexico didn’t own it before any more than the US owns it now. I don’t like the nationalistic intentions, but I can rationalize it to myself that Mexico is also part of [North] America
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No shit they didn’t. And they never have. Because it was called the Gulf of Mexico before Mexico as a nation existed. It was called that because it was named after the Valley of Mexico, which was part of New Spain.. Mexico as a country didn’t exist until centuries later.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_Mexico
Maybe actually read the history of this before deciding this is about anyone other than Trump claiming ownership of that gulf.
raef@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No one can own the Gulf anyway. Trump just wanted to stir shit up and people like you getting all bent out of shape are just playing into it. It’s just a name
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
“Mount McKinley” is “just a name” for what is supposed to be called Denali. Ask an indigenous person if they think changing the name of a sacred mountain to the name of a man responsible for one of them many genocides of their people is “just a name.”
Then ask virtually any black person if they don’t care about Trump and Republicans restoring Confederate generals’ names to military bases. Find out if they think it’s “just a name.”
Names have power and I’m amazed you don’t realize that.