Yah. I’m torn. On the one hand it’s kind of stupid and pointless to change the names of things. On the other hand If your changing the name, Gulf of America is probably the best option. The real point of doing it is to give the media something marketable to talk about instead of the more boringly important things going on. Which again tonight, gets me dangerously close to a rant about the shitty media we have.
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Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 3 days ago
What’s the problem with calling it Gulf of America? To me that just seems like an objectively better name. You guys do realise that Mexico is in America too, right?
Steve@communick.news 3 days ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I don’t think it’s the act that’s bad, just the undertones and the guy it’s coming from. Same thing with Mariann Budde 😂
pupbiru@aussie.zone 3 days ago
the problem is not with the change: the problem is with the implementation… we have international organisations that manage things like place names, and the president of the US doesn’t have the authority to just go ahead and change an internationally agreed upon thing. in the US? perhaps… but it’s bat shit insane that globally we now see both names. it’s like trump saying everything globally has to default to fahrenheit and feet and google etc just complying without question
but also, as other commenters have mentioned: there’s no real issue with the original name; it’s just nationalism and racism that triggered the change
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Google and Apple are US companies though. I’m not aware of any international organizations simply just accepting the new name like that and I doubt the people in Mexico for example will start calling it that either. It seems like people are making out this to be a bigger issue than it is. Anyone is free to keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico either. I still call Facebook, Twitter and Turkey by their original names too and I’ve yet to encounter a single person not understanding what I’m talking about.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 3 days ago
that’s exactly the point: there are international bodies that name these things. the arrogance of all of this is astounding. the US president doesn’t get to just snap his fingers and have the world say “yes mr president” and bow down to it…
gulf of america
is not it’s name