Since America was supposedly named using the feminzed latin first name of cartographer Amerigo Vespucci, what would they have called it had they used his last name? Any ideas? I'm sure Americans would shudder at that thought.
America Never Existed
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We would have gone absolutely BANANAS! We go mental at that stuff! I can ONLY imagine if that "what if" had happened.
Plague! Famine! Pestilence! Gerbils!
Plague! Famine! Pestilence! Gerbils!
United States of Cappucino... and we'd be all be Cappucino's...and some folks would say...
"Hey... we all are Cappucino's!"
"Hey... we all are Cappucino's!"
Americans in the US never use the term "North America" to describe themselves. They only use it out of politeness when Canadians are around. A man I met from England said he had never heard of the term North America.
North America is the name of the continent. For someone not to have heard of it, he'd have to have missed an awful lot of geography in school.
The City of Winnipeg
Remember, The City of Winnipeg, Canada is located geographically and GPS as exactly Central North America, which also The United States of America aka America claims to be part of. :lol:
Remember, The City of Winnipeg, Canada is located geographically and GPS as exactly Central North America, which also The United States of America aka America claims to be part of. :lol:
Where does the United States of America claim to be the geographic centre of North America?
"The City of Winnipeg, Canada is located geographically and GPS as exactly Central North America, which also The United States of America aka America claims to be part of." :lol:
courtesy of Wikipedia:
The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south.
As Wikipedia says, "The country is situated mostly in central North America" well... so is the home to The City of Winnipeg. (Central North America) geographically excactly and GPS wise.
Remember Canada recently acquired 100nm of land in the Arctic Region, so we are well into Central North America. (The Winnipeg clear).
I don't think it meant geographically. I think it meant situated in the middle between countries (Canada and Mexico and the other 12 or so countries don't matter). lol
This is a dumb game anyway, if America existed we'd all be American, then by play of words, would be from Winnipeg by means of location. lol :lol: lol
I generally call them US Americans. There are Native Americans, South Americans, Mexican Americans, North Americans, Central Americans etc,.. it doesn't really matter IMO, we're all Americans. It's just sort of sad the USA has given us all such a bad rep we have to refer to ourselves by our respective countries just so the rest of the world knows we aren't from that country.
I don't much care what people call others. I call Americans (US citizens) yanks, Canadians are Canucks, Mexicans are Mexicans, etc.
To be quite honest, I really have no issues with The United States of America, or U.S. Citizens, but when we start talking about America and Americans, no matter how hard I want to support them as a country called America or their nationality as Americans, I have to force force force myself to believe that it is true untill I start pretending that it's true, untill I get a bad feeling like I am doing something wrong.
What is it about the U.S. and Americans that I wish so much for them to be true, that I have to stop myself because it's allmost as if God is saying, no way in hell!
Knock on wood I guess...
What is it about the U.S. and Americans that I wish so much for them to be true, that I have to stop myself because it's allmost as if God is saying, no way in hell!
Knock on wood I guess...
Can I ask some honest personal questions for the Americans on Canadian Content?
1. Do you have to force yourself to believe your American? Or, does it truly come naturally?
2. Do you think your any bit less than American because of people saying that the U.S. is not America?
and one more please..
3. Will you honestly vouch in God's name, even to the bible that you are truthfully and honestly Americans as God intended?
1. Do you have to force yourself to believe your American? Or, does it truly come naturally?
2. Do you think your any bit less than American because of people saying that the U.S. is not America?
and one more please..
3. Will you honestly vouch in God's name, even to the bible that you are truthfully and honestly Americans as God intended?
For me it comes natural because that is what we have always called ourselves. That is what the world has called us. It isn't just our doing.
Only a very few diehards have this issue with people from the United States calling themselves American. For the most part I do not think anyone really cares what we call ourselves. You have to admit that calling us Americans is easier that calling us US Citizens or Statians... or any other name. Some people just call us Yanks or Yankees.
I will not swear on God's name for anything. If I did swear on God's name it would not be on anything this trivial. But I AM truthfully an American.
BS.
People have referred to themselves/others by their nationality for centuries. Citizens of the USA have been called Americans ever since their revolution because it was the easiest adjective to come up with from their country's name, the United States of America. It doesn't lend itself as easily to it as Rome, Greece, China, Egypt, Poland, England, France et al. It has nothing to do with the anti-American sentiment that has risen to dwell in a bunch of petty, jealous idiots who spend their time looking for reasons to resent others.