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minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down2·2 months agoDid you miss, like, the last 500 years or something?
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down5·2 months agoIt wasn’t Americans who invaded America…
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-22 months agoHow many genocided peoples called it America before the colonizers started killing them?
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·2 months agoI mean… Japan isn’t called Japan in Japanese either. Unfortunately we don’t speak Mayan, or Incan, or Cherokee, or etc.…
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-22 months agoI’m fairly certain they wouldn’t collectively name it after a random ass Italian dude.
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoMy point was that it’s the only word we have in English.
Did you miss, like, the last 500 years or something?
It wasn’t Americans who invaded America…
How many genocided peoples called it America before the colonizers started killing them?
I mean… Japan isn’t called Japan in Japanese either. Unfortunately we don’t speak Mayan, or Incan, or Cherokee, or etc.…
I’m fairly certain they wouldn’t collectively name it after a random ass Italian dude.
My point was that it’s the only word we have in English.