oh jeebz, they’re making the rest of the world great again
How could we have let this happen?
Submitted 10 months ago by Lt_Worf@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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SaveComengs@lemmy.federa.net 10 months ago
Siegfried@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Worst of all is georgia, disgusting!
k2helix@lemmy.world 10 months ago
why? (not from the US)
xbhaktapur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because there’s an entire country named Georgia 🇬🇪
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
not from the US
Because there’s a USbstate named Georgia.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Never mind international cities, Indiana has a New Chicago. I don’t know how that even works.
Lt_Worf@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
We must find a newer Chicago.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Only to be outdone when someone discovers the newest Chicago.
jscummy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Kinda like New Coke in that case
PostnataleAbtreibung@lemmy.world 10 months ago
New York —> new Amsterdam —> Amsterdam (Netherlands)
generic@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 months ago
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why’d they change it? I can’t say. People just liked it better that way!
CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So take me back to Constantinople
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have a friend who has a house fairly close to New York City that was built by the Dutch. Just a fun fact.
poudlardo@jlai.lu 10 months ago
To second his, Harlem the neighbourhood in New York originates from Haarlem, an actual city near Amsterdam.
flames5123@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But new Amsterdam is gin.
gullible@kbin.social 10 months ago
What a waste. To think we could have had a new war of the roses if the New Lancastrians hadn’t ducked out.
nxfsi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What city is new England based on?
Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I dunno but it’s the size of England.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
England City, the capital of England. Duh.
jasondj@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
My face when I realize I live in New England.
MaxMouseOCX@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Greetings from old England.
Haha@lemmy.world 10 months ago
America is that newborn that thinks whatever his ancestors has are his
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Americans are more like the English than they realize lol
s_s@lemmy.one 10 months ago
When you learn that Mexicans named New Mexico…
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Spaniards named New Mexico a couple centuries before Mexico existed.
s_s@lemmy.one 10 months ago
The Mexica existed long before the Spanish arrived. They migrated to the Valley of Mexico from a land in the north they referred to as Aztlán when the Toltecs went into decline.
Nuevo Mexico was named by the Spanish in reference to this history, as they were following the Rio Grande north searching for the Cities of Gold referenced in these same Mexica (ie Aztec) legends.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Yes, US annexed New Mexico and Texas, which originally belonged to Mexico.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Kind of. The Spanish named New Mexico in the 1600s, and it was a much larger territory than the current state. The Mexicans named Mexico in 1821 when they gained their independence from Spain, and they acquired New Mexico as well. Then the US annexed it in the late 1800s.
Spur4383@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And California…
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wait till the Kentuckians hear about Versailles France. They ain’t gonna like that
jordanlund@lemmy.one 10 months ago
God help you when you hit Springfield… or Portland.
affiliate@lemmy.world 10 months ago
they can keep the old versions
Zoldyck@lemmy.world 10 months ago
RIP New Amsterdam
silvercove@lemdro.id 10 months ago
Everybody knows that new Mexico is not part of the USA! 🤣
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 months ago
New Mexico was named such before Mexico was named. The Spaniards named a much larger territory that encompassed all of the current state of New Mexico, New Mexico. A couple centuries later the Mexican people revolted and gained their independence, and named the country Mexico in 1821
mycelium_underground@lemmy.world 10 months ago
New Mexico was New Mexico long before Mexico was Mexico
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Well, but New York is actually named after the duke of York
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There’s a new Mexico now?
Lt_Worf@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Slow down there, maestro!
mojo@lemm.ee 10 months ago
We are version 2.0 so surely they must be better
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have always wanted to go visit original, or Classic York.
PrinceFidget@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Vanilla York
Klear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It used to be called Amsterdam.
ripcord@kbin.social 10 months ago
Not Constantinople
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why did they change it?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I think Virginia is worst of the lot, as it was named after Elizabeth the first; the virgin queen.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 10 months ago
(definitely wasn’t a virgin)
TwinTusks@outpost.zeuslink.net 10 months ago
Its so shameful that Elizabeth I would stole Virginia from Virginia.
xNIBx@kbin.social 10 months ago
New Mexico predates Mexico. From wikipedia
agoseris@lemm.ee 10 months ago
True, but the meme cites Mexico City, which was called “Mexico City” before New Mexico was established
Lt_Worf@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
So Mexico should be New New Mexico, and New Mexico should be Old New Mexico.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We could just call one North and the other South. And then write a popular folk song that calls out landmarks South Mexico that are really Southern North Mexico. Country Roads style.