No One in my Country Knows the Name of the Country They Live In.

America is an abbreviation of Americas the collective name of both continent’s. Didn’t know that.

I mean, you can play semantics all day long but the fact is this: in 1776, that's the name they gave us and that's what our name is: the United States of America.

We were the United Colonies, now we're USA.

You don't have to like it, but that's the country's name. Everyone knows who we are. Get over it.

Used to be "Turtle Island" until our ancestors killed everyone living there and made a perfect utopia. Trust the science.

Preamble of the US Constitution:

""We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America"

Read it and weep, OP.

1776 is the date that the Bavarian Illuminati was founded.

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Shhh. Don't tell him. I don't want to see his head explode.

The mustard is off of the hot dog - Chick Hearn.

No, I guess we add them to North America, but only when they get to that building of the wall, maybe we can throw over the things to do it with and throw some money to them, as we also send the ones who have large equipment and experts to help. Then, and this helps them also, we call all parties like North America should.

That's an abbreviation for the United States of North America. It was too long and created an anagram for "ANUS".

There are still books around from the 1700's you know...

they crossed the land bridge in Alaska way back.
possibly before the Toba Catastrophe.

Nothing united about it anymore…

Immaterial argument. What is written on that page is what was deliberated and decided upon. What was written is what is.

Anything else is whimsy.

Apples are blue if you get enough wikipidiots to sign off on it.

It's called revisionist history. I'm only interested in actual history.

And I'm also the only one left in the world that still uses italics. And I'm not even Italian.

And those other places do not refer to themselves specifically as America like people from the United States do. Even other people from other places specifically refer to people from the United States as Americans. So, the one half of the planet is considered geographically America, what else are you going to call people from the United States....

United Statians?

Pure delusion.

"The earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to what is now known as South America.

It appears on a small globe map with twelve time zones, together with the largest wall map made to date, both created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in France".
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"The naming of the Americas, or America, occurred shortly after Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas in 1492. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years.

However, some have suggested other explanations, including being named after a mountain range in Nicaragua, or after Richard Amerike of Bristol."

Like Rome and Atlantis, this shit storm will fall. I'm not sure how the people of the future will refer to us.

Most likely “assholes”

Alas... You have found Wikipedia... Now all the answers are known.

More specifically, "Those assholes"...

Indigenous means originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.

But people didn't just sprout up like plants out of the Earth in a "place". They walked there. They built a home there.

How do we know if they killed off the earlier indigenous people to live there?

You're right. We were justified in blasting them off their land and creating the wondrous and jaw dropping utopia that is the United States of North America.

Not really. Everything is speculation. Because hotdogs want answers.

Places on maps were named by the cartographers for identification in sailing. They weren't claims of ownership or homeland.

The only place we can really claim we are from is our mother's womb.

What makes the United States jaw dropping?

Yeah, our ancestors never claimed any property, we were all just hippies dancing at the feet of our mothers. Always living in a perfect and safe world.

Many answers to that question but I was using sarcasm.

The USA should get around to coming up with an actual name for their country.
"United States of America" sounds really generic and isn't really a country name. It's more of a generalized location like "that building next to Wal-Mart over by the taco place".

Murica.

What's wrong with tacos????