Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be?
FoolsQuartz@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
It kind of bothers me that it’s called America in shorthand when the entire 2-continents are ALSO called America.
I like the names that people have for smaller sections of it, e.g Arcadia which i think means Washington and Oregon state? And New England. I guess nobody wants their country to be called ‘new oldcountry,’ though 😝
FelixCress@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It is not called “America”, this is just what USians like everyone to call it.
FoolsQuartz@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
And your being a xenophobic piece of shit not respecting what a country wants to be called.
A country gets to choose its own name and terms. Just cause our leader is currently more of a dipshit then normal doesn’t make it ok to tell people what they are allowed to call themselves.
Turkey just had this fucking problem, can people just stop being racist xenophobic shit stains and respect what others are called?
The term American has been used as a slur against the people of the colonies for hundreds of years. Just cause we reclaimed it now you lot are pissed that your slur isn’t working against us anymore and want to move to a new one that doesn’t even respect our own wishes because we have yet a shit leader yet again.
I don’t see fucks like you calling to change what China calls themselves, or to stop people from claiming to be European instead of French or German.
Our country is named after our continent, it’s been that way for hundreds of years now. It ain’t changing and fucking mislabeling is annoying as fuck.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t give a flying fuck what USians want to be called. It is like one country claimed name “Earth” and insist only them to be called Earthlings.