The world is considering renaming United States on their maps. As the indigenous people discovered and explored the land thousands of years before the first Europeans, it’s fitting that they should do it. Many nations made up the area. Is there any name that would be representitive of all?
I love* how — in true stupid fashion — they’re naming things after America, which isn’t even the country’s name. We’re the United States of America, just one of several countries located on the North American continental plate.
That said in answer to your question that is a tough one because there are so many unrelated language families in NA. I’d probably pick something either Algonkian or iriquoian. Nituskeenan means “our land” in Cree, for example, and sounds kinda cool.
* I do not love this.
While as an American (the continent) I find that annoying, their country name IS America. For example, these are some other countries full names:
Etc, a lot of countries have a long name that explains what type of government they run and then the actual name of the country, the United States of Venezuela is a country named Venezuela that was formed by a coalition of states, I know nothing of Venezuela but because of its name I can imagine states have some autonomy in their ruling. And similarly United States of America is a country named America that was formed by a coalition of states, they just decided to name their country after the continent they’re in making life difficult for the future generations.
While here in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, we apparently shortened it to just the type of government, like we’re the only kingdom or something.
AFAIK UK is the only country that’s named “United Kingdom of something” and it’s shorter than Great Britain and Northern Ireland, so it doesn’t need disambiguation.
Yeah, also not aware of any united kingdoms, there are other kingdoms though. I guess people know what it is at this point
Wouldn’t it be poetic if the rest of the countries on these continents ‘maliciously complied’ by going all-in adopting the term “American”?
“American tacos” and “American Cerveza” sold with the Mexican flag on it, “American bacon”, “American Whiskey” and “American maple syrup” with the Canadian flag, etc.
Leave the population of USA orphaned without a collective name for themselves.
I always fully qualify North America, since there’s South America it makes sense. For some reason Central America is reserved for that tiny connecty bit, so now Canada has to be North-North America geographically; sorry. Maybe something like Polar America would sound nicer. This is assuming of course that Canada takes the logical step of splitting off their country from South-North America with a healthy small ocean or something
Yes but to play devil’s advocate, no other country uses “America” in their name and the word is synonymous with the USA in English.
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No, to any English speaker. When anyone says “America” you understand that they mean the United States of America regardless of how you feel about the term.
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Their aspiration is to rule over all of America.