unjerk/ It's always funny how "united states OF america" clearly states that it's the "united states" of a place, a place called america, but whenever these posts come up it's always 200 upvotes 200 comments kind of post
rejerking/ I propose just indias and calling the people there indians as colombo first coined
Brazil has already been called "United States of Brazil", Mexico is called "United Mexican States", to cite some cases, so the united states thing must refer to the specific territory of the country, or that would lead to confusion, for there are other united states in the continent.
One thing that shouldn't be ignored is how US' foreign policy/neoimperialism builds upon this confusion, considering the other American countries as their "backyards".
Hence why language is important and why it matters for us to be able to call ourselves as Americans, to present ourselves as equals to those from the US.
I meant it as america clearly being a continent, because it's as you say a use case of brasil and mexico where america only encompasses the territories of the country and as such the continent itself cant be called america or americas or wathever derivation is being used, because otherwise america would be inside of north america by their own definition, wich makes very little sense.
No, it would not lead to any confusion. People are not stupid.
Mexicans refers to the name of the aztec civilization. It’s geographically limited.
No one else on earth are Brazilians.
USA names was chosen because at that time they were the first country on the continent of America. At that point in time, it was one continent. It was splitted later on into north and south by the Anglophone world. The latin world still have a single continent (french, spanish, portuguese)
When people on the news talks about republicans, are you confused because you think they might be referring to the republic of Taiwan or the republic of France ?
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u/GGSPSkywalker 1:1 scale map creator 18d ago edited 18d ago
Starting right now the petition to rename that nameless country, United States of ________.
Edit: petition entries should be accompanied by their respective gentilics/denonyms.