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

[Political Smash]

4 hours ago, gatomontes99 said:

bigot : a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices

Tell me how you don't fit this definition? You have this irrational fixation on a term that has been used for centuries. You refuse to a knowledge that it was given and not chosen. You've assigned far more importance to this issue than is rationally logical. How are you not a bigot?

For starters it is not my opinion that USA citizens name themselves after a continent and not their country as well pointing out fact is not prejudice.

 Pointing out fact you call irrational, go figure. 

 Whether it was given, not chosen as you claim it still doesn't change the fact that USA citizens name themselves after a continent and not their country since your brain is obviously way to small to realize something so obvious all by yourself.

 You stated

"American was originally the term for all the natives that lived here"

Then you stated

"As time progressed and Europeans made north America their home, the term slowly morphed into anyone living in North America."

then you stated

"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."

Then you stated

"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."

By your own statements it reveals that USA citizens stole the term that predates your country from the natives who lived here before Europeans made the USA their home and funny thing Canadians live in North America too but unlike USA citizens we named ourselves after our country instead of an entire continent.

 It makes sense that natives who lived in America were called Americans because there was no country in North America but since the United States of America came to be, do you call yourselves Americans because you are too ashamed of your own country to name yourselves after your country instead of an entire continent?

[gatomontes99]

3 hours ago, Political Smash said:

For starters it is not my opinion that USA citizens name themselves after a continent and not their country as well pointing out fact is not prejudice.

 Pointing out fact you call irrational, go figure. 

 Whether it was given, not chosen as you claim it still doesn't change the fact that USA citizens name themselves after a continent and not their country since your brain is obviously way to small to realize something so obvious all by yourself.

 You stated

"American was originally the term for all the natives that lived here"

Then you stated

"As time progressed and Europeans made north America their home, the term slowly morphed into anyone living in North America."

then you stated

"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."

Then you stated

"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."

By your own statements it reveals that USA citizens stole the term that predates your country from the natives who lived here before Europeans made the USA their home and funny thing Canadians live in North America too but unlike USA citizens we named ourselves after our country instead of an entire continent.

 It makes sense that natives who lived in America were called Americans because there was no country in North America but since the United States of America came to be, do you call yourselves Americans because you are too ashamed of your own country to name yourselves after your country instead of an entire continent?

No. We didn't start using the term for us. Europeans started using that term. We didn't name ourselves. Go read a history book. Jebus.

[CdnFox]

14 hours ago, Political Smash said:

For starters it is not my opinion that USA citizens name themselves after a continent and not their country as well pointing out fact is not prejudice.

 Pointing out fact you call irrational, go figure. 

 Whether it was given, not chosen as you claim it still doesn't change the fact that USA citizens name themselves after a continent and not their country since your brain is obviously way to small to realize something so obvious all by yourself.

 You stated

"American was originally the term for all the natives that lived here"

Then you stated

"As time progressed and Europeans made north America their home, the term slowly morphed into anyone living in North America."

then you stated

"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."

Then you stated

"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."

By your own statements it reveals that USA citizens stole the term that predates your country from the natives who lived here before Europeans made the USA their home and funny thing Canadians live in North America too but unlike USA citizens we named ourselves after our country instead of an entire continent.

 

Hey stupid. If the name predates the country and the people used to the name before the country existed, then they did not name themselves after a country. They named the country after themselves

In the immortal words of ford prefect,"I wish I had two heads like yours,  I could have infinite fun banging them together"

 

[Legato]

When the first settlers landed the first person they came across was a lady. The captain asked the lady "where are we". She replied "I Am Erica'.

[CdnFox]

48 minutes ago, Legato said:

When the first settlers landed the first person they came across was a lady. The captain asked the lady "where are we". She replied "I Am Erica'.

And that's how a hearing disability created a nation! Good night kids, drink your Ovaltine.

[CouchPotato]

In Spanish it's Estados Unidos, and Americans are estadounidenses. That's pretty much like United Statesians.

Edited August 25 by CouchPotato

[Political Smash]

On 8/25/2024 at 7:19 AM, gatomontes99 said:

No. We didn't start using the term for us. Europeans started using that term. We didn't name ourselves. Go read a history book. Jebus.

 

16 hours ago, CdnFox said:

Hey stupid. If the name predates the country and the people used to the name before the country existed, then they did not name themselves after a country. They named the country after themselves

In the immortal words of ford prefect,"I wish I had two heads like yours,  I could have infinite fun banging them together"

 

It doesn't matter what either of you claim because it is irrelevant. I get a kick out of when woke like NPC mentalities desperately scramble to try and make their retardation the issue so I humored gatomontes99 to allow gatomontes99 to think gatomontes99 stood a chance. Now this is where it gets fun since both of your brains are obviously way too small to see what is so very obvious all by yourselves I'll walk you through it like the little 5 year old mentalities you reveal to possess.

 

My question in the OP states

"Are USA Citizens Too Ashamed Of Their Own Country To Name Themselves After Their Own Country Instead of naming themselves after and entire continent?"

 

 To this very day (hundreds of years since the USA become a country) USA citizens are still naming themselves after an entire continent instead of their own country. Is this because USA citizens are too ashamed of their own country to name themselves after their own country instead of an entire continent?

It's a very simple question.

 

 

[gatomontes99]

6 minutes ago, Political Smash said:

 

It doesn't matter what either of you claim because it is irrelevant. I get a kick out of when woke like NPC mentalities desperately scramble to try and make their retardation the issue so I humored gatomontes99 to allow gatomontes99 to think gatomontes99 stood a chance. Now this is where it gets fun since both of your brains are obviously way too small to see what is so very obvious all by yourselves I'll walk you through it like the little 5 year old mentalities you reveal to possess.

 

My question in the OP states

"Are USA Citizens Too Ashamed Of Their Own Country To Name Themselves After Their Own Country Instead of naming themselves after and entire continent?"

 

 To this very day (hundreds of years since the USA become a country) USA citizens are still naming themselves after an entire continent instead of their own country. Is this because USA citizens are too ashamed of their own country to name themselves after their own country instead of an entire continent?

It's a very simple question.

 

 

It's a simple question with a false premise that is born of your bigotry.

[CdnFox]

5 hours ago, Political Smash said:

 

It doesn't matter what either of you claim because it is irrelevant.

 

 

True. Either way you're stupid so what does it really matter?  

[gatomontes99]

17 hours ago, CdnFox said:

True. Either way you're stupid so what does it really matter?  

Some Canadians have ADS...America Derrangement Syndrome. This guy appears to be one of them.

[robosmith]

On 8/24/2024 at 7:28 PM, Political Smash said:

Oh so despite your so called history lesson which doesn't detract from the fact, stating the fact that America is a continent and not a country makes a person a bigot according to your leftist style ideology tactics huh ...

Pathetic.

America is NOT a continent. There are TWO continents: North and South America. Learn to count.

And no one is going to change any names to suit you and your alleged "shame."

You just make yourself a fool by repeating your FANTASIES here.

[Hodad]

8 hours ago, gatomontes99 said:

Some Canadians have ADS...America Derrangement Syndrome. This guy appears to be one of them.

I think the OP should be congratulated. He's come up with a topic that builds bridges and fosters unity. People all across the political spectrum can agree that this subject is profoundly stupid. 

[Political Smash]

On 8/26/2024 at 11:04 AM, gatomontes99 said:

It's a simple question with a false premise that is born of your bigotry.

Oh in your delusional little world USA citizens, like Donald Trump for example, do not call themselves Americans

On 8/26/2024 at 4:15 PM, CdnFox said:

True. Either way you're stupid so what does it really matter?  

Oh poor little baby makes up yet another vacant un backed claim. I think you ought to stop taking lessons from woke NPC types.

On 8/27/2024 at 9:51 AM, gatomontes99 said:

Some Canadians have ADS...America Derrangement Syndrome. This guy appears to be one of them.

Oh really, how so?

On 8/27/2024 at 5:19 PM, robosmith said:

America is NOT a continent. There are TWO continents: North and South America. Learn to count.

And no one is going to change any names to suit you and your alleged "shame."

You just make yourself a fool by repeating your FANTASIES here.

America is a continent, as already covered in the OP, there is South, Central and North of the continent.

On 8/27/2024 at 6:30 PM, Hodad said:

I think the OP should be congratulated. He's come up with a topic that builds bridges and fosters unity. People all across the political spectrum can agree that this subject is profoundly stupid. 

Are USA citizens too ashamed of their own country to name themselves after their own country instead of naming themselves after an entire continent?

Well then go ahead and explain how someone with a brain as small as yours comes up with the delusion that, that question is stupid?!

Edited August 30 by Political Smash

[Political Smash]

On 8/27/2024 at 5:19 PM, robosmith said:

America is NOT a continent. There are TWO continents: North and South America. Learn to count.

And no one is going to change any names to suit you and your alleged "shame."

You just make yourself a fool by repeating your FANTASIES here.

Sure it is, there is the Northern part of America, the Central part of America and the Southern part of the same continent called America. Since the Panama Canal was dug the North and South of Panama didn't drift apart because it is the same continent.

 

In the end, no matter how desperately you try and spin it, USA citizens name themselves after an entire continent instead of their own country and my question is very simple (a question is not alleging anything) is this because USA citizens are too ashamed of their own country to name themselves after their own country instead of naming themselves after an entire continent?

[Black Dog]

7 minutes ago, Political Smash said:

Sure it is, there is the Northern part of America, the Central part of America and the Southern part of the same continent called America.

They are not the same continent. They are two separate continents. This is taught in like grade 1.

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Since the Panama Canal was dug the North and South of Panama didn't drift apart because it is the same continent.

Funny you should mention Panama since North and South America were completely separated by the ocean for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose up and formed a land bridge connecting the two continents around 3 million years ago.

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In the end, no matter how desperately you try and spin it, USA citizens name themselves after an entire continent instead of their own country and my question is very simple (a question is not alleging anything) is this because USA citizens are too ashamed of their own country to name themselves after their own country instead of naming themselves after an entire continent?

The country is named after the continent therefore the people are naming themselves after the country.

Edited Friday at 08:21 PM by Black Dog

[robosmith]

34 minutes ago, Black Dog said:

They are not the same continent. They are two separate continents. This is taught in like grade 1.

Funny you should mention Panama since North and South America were completely separated by the ocean for tens of millions of years before the Isthmus of Panama rose up and formed a land bridge connecting the two continents around 3 million years ago.

The country is named after the continent therefore the people are naming themselves after the country.

Not entirely accurate. There is no continent named America. There are the North American and South American continents.

USA contains the name of  the American REGION.

[WestCanMan]

How is this thread still going? 

[CouchPotato]

33 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

How is this thread still going? 

I just opened this thread to ask the same question.

[CouchPotato]

On 11/29/2024 at 4:12 PM, Political Smash said:

In the end, no matter how desperately you try and spin it, USA citizens name themselves after an entire continent instead of their own country and my question is very simple (a question is not alleging anything) is this because USA citizens are too ashamed of their own country to name themselves after their own country instead of naming themselves after an entire continent?

I figure they didn't name themselves. They would have been Brits living in the American colonies, and they probably were commonly referred to as Americans to differentiate themselves from other Brits. They already had a name for themselves and saw no reason to change it. Why are people in the Netherlands Dutch? Why aren't they Netherish? Or Hollandaise?

[Dougie93]

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

Yeah I don't get it either.

particularly as these continents were named by the Italians in the 16th century,

after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci

and the British whom conquered them in the Seven Years War were not even the United States at the time

furthermore, if the United States has a colloquial name, that would in fact be The ( Glorious ) Union

[WestCanMan]

1 minute ago, Dougie93 said:

particularly as these continents were named by the Italians in the 16th century,

after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci

and the British whom conquered them in the Seven Years War were not even the United States at the time

furthermore, if the United States has a colloquial name, that would in fact be The ( Glorious ) Union

I'd say that Americans are some of the least shy people on earth about saying where they're from. 

Sure, some of them wear Canadian flags on their backpacks when they travel in Europe, but that's a small percent. 

[Dougie93]

9 minutes ago, WestCanMan said:

I'd say that Americans are some of the least shy people on earth about saying where they're from. 

Sure, some of them wear Canadian flags on their backpacks when they travel in Europe, but that's a small percent. 

well from 1603 to 1814,  the "Canadians" were only the Quebecois of Nouvelle France

the United Empire Loyalists whom fled the American Revolution still called themselves "Americans"

it was only after the American forces went up and down the north shore of lake Erie in the War of 1812

burning down all the Loyalist farms in retaliation for the defeats inflicted upon the Union by the British

that the American Loyalists here changed their names,

adopting the French name "Canadian" to distinguish themselves from the Republic

Edited Saturday at 11:27 PM by Dougie93

[Deluge]

On 8/13/2024 at 2:35 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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[Fluffypants]

Its simple, we are the United States of America, think of us like the first EU. A bunch of disparate groups of people forming into one nation. We start with 13 colonies or states who all agreed to become one nation but each state has some autonomy.

We have a Constitution with lays out what the state's responsibilities are and what the federal government's job is. Some of our states are popular enough that when we go abroad we don't tell them we are from the US we tell them we are from Texas and most people in the world know what we mean. Of course when we tell them we are from Texas they wonder where are hat and boots are but they know where we are from.

Each state is like its own country with different foods and cultures they claim. In the South you mention BBQ and its a fight over which state makes the best BBQ, the answer is Texas of course, slow smoked Brisket is simply amazing. We don't need to travel to other countries every state is like going to an exotic place and our country is HUGE and most of it is quite habitable.