Are USA Citizens Too Ashamed Of Their Own Country To Name Themselves After Their Own Country

Political Smash · August 13

Instead of naming themselves after and entire continent?

Of which several other countries reside on the same continent (whether it be North, South or Central America) and name their citizens after their own countries because we have some pride in the significance of the country upon which we live. For arguments sake, just because Panama dug a trench it doesn't mean that the continent is not connected, I mean there is such a thing as continental drift if such a thing were significant.

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Edited August 13 by Political Smash

Five of swords · August 13

4 hours ago, Political Smash said:

Instead of naming themselves after and entire continent?

Of which several other countries reside on the same continent (whether it be North, South or Central America) and name their citizens after their own countries because we have some pride in the significance of the country upon which we live. For arguments sake, just because Panama dug a trench it doesn't mean that the continent is not connected, I mean there is such a thing as continental drift if such a thing were significant.

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The United States is not a continent. The continent is north america.

Matthew · August 13

5 hours ago, Political Smash said:

Instead of naming themselves after and entire continent?

Of which several other countries reside on the same continent (whether it be North, South or Central America) and name their citizens after their own countries because we have some pride in the significance of the country upon which we live. For arguments sake, just because Panama dug a trench it doesn't mean that the continent is not connected, I mean there is such a thing as continental drift if such a thing were significant.

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I read this like 3 time and have no idea what it's saying. With respect, are you high?

herbie · August 13

10 hours ago, Matthew said:

I read this like 3 time and have no idea what it's saying. With respect, are you high?

Not on anything psychedelic. Maybe an opium pipe or missed bipolar meds.

Hodad · August 14

The inanity (or insanity) of the OP aside, the white settlers in the colonies were called Americans long before there was a United States of America after which they might have called themselves. They were the English citizens living in the Americas.

Couple that with an (in)healthy dose of ethnocentrism and there you have it. We're Americans.

Rebound · August 14

16 hours ago, Political Smash said:

Instead of naming themselves after and entire continent?

Of which several other countries reside on the same continent (whether it be North, South or Central America) and name their citizens after their own countries because we have some pride in the significance of the country upon which we live. For arguments sake, just because Panama dug a trench it doesn't mean that the continent is not connected, I mean there is such a thing as continental drift if such a thing were significant.

love

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The USA is so awesome, they didn’t name one continent after us, they named TWO!

WestCanMan · August 14

Yeah I don't get it either.

Just going by the title, I was trying to think of some people named Juan Mexico, Shinzu Japan, or Igor Russia, and nothing comes to mind.

The closest thing would be people named Chin, maybe. Or Deutsch. Alban? Franco? Still, nothing too common, side from Chin.

I think that I've seen the last name "Canada" before, but it wasn't a Canadian. I found this, but I don't think the guy was Irish either.

After the thread title, the OP went off in a several different directions.

robosmith · August 14

20 hours ago, Political Smash said:

Instead of naming themselves after and entire continent?

Of which several other countries reside on the same continent (whether it be North, South or Central America) and name their citizens after their own countries because we have some pride in the significance of the country upon which we live. For arguments sake, just because Panama dug a trench it doesn't mean that the continent is not connected, I mean there is such a thing as continental drift if such a thing were significant.

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America is PART OF THE NAME. Duh

United States of America; or America for short, cause we're famous for being too lazy to use long names.

Edited August 14 by robosmith

CdnFox · August 14

14 minutes ago, robosmith said:

America is PART OF THE NAME. Duh

United States of America; or America for short, cause we're famous for being too lazy to use long names.

Oh look - Robo understood him! He speaks gibberish pretty fluent, maybe he can translate for him?

Political Smash · August 16

On 8/13/2024 at 8:50 AM, Five of swords said:

The United States is not a continent. The continent is north america.

We are in the Northern part of the continent as we call it North America and yes United States is not a continent.

Political Smash · August 16

On 8/13/2024 at 9:44 AM, Matthew said:

I read this like 3 time and have no idea what it's saying. With respect, are you high?

It's pretty plainly put and no I am not the one high here.

Do you USA citizens name themselves after an entire continenent because they are too ashamed of their own country to name themselves after their own country instead of an entire continent?

On 8/13/2024 at 7:56 PM, herbie said:

Not on anything psychedelic. Maybe an opium pipe or missed bipolar meds.

Not at all. at best coffee and cigarettes ...

Political Smash · August 16

On 8/13/2024 at 8:55 PM, Hodad said:

The inanity (or insanity) of the OP aside, the white settlers in the colonies were called Americans long before there was a United States of America after which they might have called themselves. They were the English citizens living in the Americas.

Couple that with an (in)healthy dose of ethnocentrism and there you have it. We're Americans.

So do you name yourself after an entire continent because you are too ashamed of your own country to name yourselves after your own country instead of an entire continent?

I mean before there were any countries it would make sense, but that there are many countries on America, North, South and Central citizens of those countries name themselves after their own countries except one who appear to be too ashamed of their own country to name themselves after their own country instead of the entire continent.

Are too you too ashamed of your own country to name yourself after it instead of the continent it resides upon?

On 8/13/2024 at 9:14 PM, Rebound said:

The USA is so awesome, they didn’t name one continent after us, they named TWO!

according to Hodad they named the continent before there were any countries so which is it? The USA came before the continenet?

Political Smash · August 16

On 8/13/2024 at 9:15 PM, WestCanMan said:

Yeah I don't get it either.

Just going by the title, I was trying to think of some people named Juan Mexico, Shinzu Japan, or Igor Russia, and nothing comes to mind.

The closest thing would be people named Chin, maybe. Or Deutsch. Alban? Franco? Still, nothing too common, side from Chin.

I think that I've seen the last name "Canada" before, but it wasn't a Canadian. I found this, but I don't think the guy was Irish either.

After the thread title, the OP went off in a several different directions.

If that was way too hard for you to understand, perhaps I'll throw at you what I threw at Matthew

Do you USA citizens name themselves after an entire continenent because they are too ashamed of their own country to name themselves after their own country instead of an entire continent?

Political Smash · August 16

On 8/14/2024 at 1:33 AM, robosmith said:

America is PART OF THE NAME. Duh

United States of America; or America for short, cause we're famous for being too lazy to use long names.

And yet America is a continent, I mean is that your way of saying you are too ashamed of your own country to name yourselves after it instead of an entire continent?

Matthew · August 16

4 hours ago, Political Smash said:

Do you USA citizens name themselves after an entire continenent because they are too ashamed of their own country

Both the continental name and the country name are failures of creativity.

WestCanMan · August 16

7 hours ago, Political Smash said:

If that was way too hard for you to understand, perhaps I'll throw at you what I threw at Matthew

Do you USA citizens name themselves after an entire continenent because they are too ashamed of their own country to name themselves after their own country instead of an entire continent?

You're confusing "too hard to understand" with "unintelligible".

1. I'm Canadian

2. What US citizens "name themselves" after an entire continent?

FYI the states were independent sovereign regions that banded together to form a country. That's why you hear things like "The Commonwealth of Virginia, Pennsylvania, or Massachusetts" or "The Republic of California or Texas", etc.

When they came together to form a country they didn't just agree to be swallowed up by Massachusetts or whatever and become a part of that growing 'country' named Massachusetts. They joined together as the states within a larger union. They formed a new country within North America. They were states that united to form a country in the Americas. So they called themselves the "United States of America". Individuals call themselves "Americans". They're no shortage of pride for them in saying they're Americans. Everyone in the English speaking world knows what "American" means.

What do you think 'USA citizens' should call themselves aside from Americans? USAns? Usans?

I'll be really honest with you again: I don't think Americans are generally ashamed of their country, and I don't know who ever said that they were. The knock on Americans up 'til now would have been that they're overly patriotic, don't you think?

CouchPotato · August 16

10 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

What do you think 'USA citizens' should call themselves aside from Americans?

This question is the first thing that popped into my head, and now I can't stop thinking about possible names.

CouchPotato · August 16

7 hours ago, Political Smash said:

If that was way too hard for you to understand, perhaps I'll throw at you what I threw at Matthew

Do you USA citizens name themselves after an entire continenent because they are too ashamed of their own country to name themselves after their own country instead of an entire continent?

I have no idea about the history of the name "American" as it pertains to people of USA but I am going to guess that they were probably being called that by the British before the country declared independence.

Edited August 16 by CouchPotato

Hodad · August 16

This is a weird/dumb thread, but I'm very worried about OP when he gets around to noticing that the Dutch live in Holland, formally The Netherlands, within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

He may go full meltdown.

robosmith · August 16

8 hours ago, Political Smash said:

And yet America is a continent, I mean is that your way of saying you are too ashamed of your own country to name yourselves after it instead of an entire continent?

Thanks for answering one of my questions here as to whether Canadians are taught US history.

We are United States to kowtow to the individual states which needed convincing to join a Federal union.

And "of America" because that is what unites those states.

Has nothing to do with shame. I guess you've not noticed how arrogant we are. LMAO

CdnFox · August 16

8 minutes ago, Hodad said:

This is a weird/dumb thread, but I'm very worried about OP when he gets around to noticing that the Dutch live in Holland, formally The Netherlands, within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

He may go full meltdown.

Wait till he finds out the english live in Britain and the british live in England.

Mind blown....

Matthew · August 16

I wish we could have a nationwide referrendum to rename the United States. It would be wild.

CdnFox · August 16

4 minutes ago, Matthew said:

I wish we could have a nationwide referrendum to rename the United States. It would be wild.

I vote for Westeros!

CouchPotato · August 16

Just now, CdnFox said:

I vote for Westeros!

Nerdlinger

gatomontes99 · August 16

On 8/13/2024 at 4:35 AM, Political Smash said:

Instead of naming themselves after and entire continent?

Of which several other countries reside on the same continent (whether it be North, South or Central America) and name their citizens after their own countries because we have some pride in the significance of the country upon which we live. For arguments sake, just because Panama dug a trench it doesn't mean that the continent is not connected, I mean there is such a thing as continental drift if such a thing were significant.

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You posted this very early in the morning. Given the speech patterns and the lack of supporting evidence for this thesis, I have to wonder ifnthis wasn't the result of a drunk post following an all night bender.

If not, ok, but wow!

If you looked up the history of the term, you would note that American was originally the term for all the natives that lived here. As time progressed and Europeans made north America their home, the term slowly morphed into anyone living in North America.

Now, when the Constituion was written and the official name of the union became The United States but there still wasn't consistent usage of the name. Sometimes it was the United States. Sometimes it was the United States of North America. It eventually settled to the United States of America.

The term American predates the country and was used to refer to people in North America. That term has stuck. We didn't name ourselves that, it was given to us.