• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
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    It’s even weirder because America doesn’t mean just the United States

    Geographically, America is too ambiguous of a name for the Gulf of Mexico

    Wouldn’t the Gulf of California also qualify as being the Gulf of America?

    The Caribbean Sea?

    Basically every river system from the Mississippi and and the Amazon are also “American” from northernmost point of North America to the southernmost point of South America, it’s all “America”

    Naming the Gulf of Mexico “America” is almost as bad as naming a country “earth”

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        Mexico’s full name is ”The United States of Mexico", I think they should rename their map’s version to Gulf of The United States just to add to the confusion and make the point these things, like all facts, are useless when people suffer no consequences from making them up.

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      Question for all non-US natives. When somebody tells you they are from America do you think the continent or the USA?

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          And that’s the point of my question, and this change. Trump feels like he won, because he took something away from Mexico.

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            Yes, agreed. He seems to regard life as a zero-sum game, in which he can’t win unless someone else loses, so he doesn’t understand the concept of win-win. It’s a kind of cognitive bias which is a serious weakness in someone who apparently imagines himself to be a master of ‘the art of the deal’.