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minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down5·1 year agoIt wasn’t Americans who invaded America…
minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoHow many genocided peoples called it America before the colonizers started killing them?
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·1 year 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-21 year agoI’m fairly certain they wouldn’t collectively name it after a random ass Italian dude.
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoMy point was that it’s the only word we have in English.
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.