• setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    No, no, this is the correct reaction to someone asking something about “America”.

    Fuck the USA for capitalizing the name of both land masses for itself.

    • Clarke @lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s the United States of America as in there are many states united in a union and that union resides in (N) America. Blame the Italian guy who drew the map in the 1600s and stuck his name on two separate continents. I mean he could have named one of them Amerigo and one Vaspucci. Furthermore I have almost always announced myself as a Virginian to bewildered stares. Perchance maybe you all should learn that each one of our states is technically its own country. I doubt many French people have to explain that France is in Europe as I have to Explain that Virginia is the First of the 13 original East Coast Colonies the British Settled on the North American Coantinent and still be met with bewilderment.

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      1 year ago

      The states are in America.

      The states are united.

      It’s not a name so much as it’s a descriptor

      So you could have a “United States of South America” , then we would have to talk lol