oh jeebz, they’re making the rest of the world great again
How could we have let this happen?
Submitted 1 year ago by Lt_Worf@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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SaveComengs@lemmy.federa.net 1 year ago
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Worst of all is georgia, disgusting!
k2helix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
why? (not from the US)
xbhaktapur@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because there’s an entire country named Georgia 🇬🇪
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
not from the US
Because there’s a USbstate named Georgia.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Never mind international cities, Indiana has a New Chicago. I don’t know how that even works.
Lt_Worf@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
We must find a newer Chicago.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Only to be outdone when someone discovers the newest Chicago.
jscummy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Kinda like New Coke in that case
PostnataleAbtreibung@lemmy.world 1 year ago
New York —> new Amsterdam —> Amsterdam (Netherlands)
generic@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year 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 1 year ago
So take me back to Constantinople
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
To second his, Harlem the neighbourhood in New York originates from Haarlem, an actual city near Amsterdam.
flames5123@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But new Amsterdam is gin.
gullible@kbin.social 1 year 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 1 year ago
What city is new England based on?
Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I dunno but it’s the size of England.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
England City, the capital of England. Duh.
jasondj@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
My face when I realize I live in New England.
MaxMouseOCX@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Greetings from old England.
Haha@lemmy.world 1 year ago
America is that newborn that thinks whatever his ancestors has are his
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Americans are more like the English than they realize lol
s_s@lemmy.one 1 year ago
When you learn that Mexicans named New Mexico…
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Spaniards named New Mexico a couple centuries before Mexico existed.
s_s@lemmy.one 1 year 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 1 year ago
Yes, US annexed New Mexico and Texas, which originally belonged to Mexico.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
And California…
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wait till the Kentuckians hear about Versailles France. They ain’t gonna like that
jordanlund@lemmy.one 1 year ago
God help you when you hit Springfield… or Portland.
affiliate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
they can keep the old versions
Zoldyck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
RIP New Amsterdam
silvercove@lemdro.id 1 year ago
Everybody knows that new Mexico is not part of the USA! 🤣
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
New Mexico was New Mexico long before Mexico was Mexico
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Well, but New York is actually named after the duke of York
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s a new Mexico now?
Lt_Worf@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Slow down there, maestro!
mojo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
We are version 2.0 so surely they must be better
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have always wanted to go visit original, or Classic York.
PrinceFidget@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Vanilla York
Klear@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It used to be called Amsterdam.
ripcord@kbin.social 1 year ago
Not Constantinople
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why did they change it?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I think Virginia is worst of the lot, as it was named after Elizabeth the first; the virgin queen.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
(definitely wasn’t a virgin)
TwinTusks@outpost.zeuslink.net 1 year ago
Its so shameful that Elizabeth I would stole Virginia from Virginia.
xNIBx@kbin.social 1 year ago
New Mexico predates Mexico. From wikipedia
agoseris@lemm.ee 1 year ago
True, but the meme cites Mexico City, which was called “Mexico City” before New Mexico was established
Lt_Worf@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
So Mexico should be New New Mexico, and New Mexico should be Old New Mexico.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 year 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.