"United states of [continent]" is not a valid name for a country, especially when there are other countries on that same continent that don't belong to the "united" one.
Compare that with Germany for example: Germany consists of 16 federal states from the same continent (Europe), similar to the one I'm referring to, but Germany also has its own name. It even has multiple names in different languages.
So why is there this big country in America that doesn't have a name? Couldn't they agree on a name or what happened? I'd really would like to know, please enlighten me, thanks!
As a follow up question, what do citizens of this country call themselves? Eg: I call myself German, because I'm from Germany.
Oliver Edwards
Reminder that Germany is nothing without the EU.
Levi Brown
stfu
Justin Rodriguez
What is united States of awesome sweaty
Andrew Parker
>united states >united kingdom >new zealand wtf anglos?
David Gray
Idiot.
It's named that because, it's the United STATES of America, AKA the united states that are united, that are on the continent of America.
We call ourselves Americans you dumb fucking kraut.
We should've finished krauts off after WW2
Levi Russell
They tried to have a name once. It was called the continental states of america.
I'm not native american at all, so I call myself american, or if you want to get larpy family history about it I'm irish-english american. You'll find all kinds of blends in certain states liek CA or NY, where people are half english and 12% polish or some shit.
It's basically "ethnicity" - "nationality" here.
Bentley Walker
Usasians even name their cites after European ones
Caleb Rivera
You sound like a South American lel.
Elijah Hall
>I call myself american I'm european, because I'm from Europe. You're american, because you're from America.
Makes sense, but I didn't mean on a continental but rather on a country level.
What would happen if Canada and Mexico unite? Would they be the united states of America as well?
Camden James
>it's basically ethnicity - nationality here.
NO IT ISN'T STOP THIS FUCKING MEME ANYONE THAT FUCKING PUTS THEIR ETHNICITY FIRST NEEDS TO GO BACK TO THEIR HOME COUNTRY Your worse than muslim """refugees""" in Europe when it comes to assimilating.'
Are you a fucking retard?
David Rodriguez
America is a CONTINENT.
Wyatt Baker
>Your worse than >Your Are you fucking retarded?
Julian Walker
Wow dude you sound kinda butthurt
I'm telling him what the general rhetoric is here. I don't run around telling everyone I come from irish and english people who moved here.
I'll tell you what I do see though is people with a drop of native american blood and suddenly they're applying to live on reserves and gambling their savings away at the local casino.
Samuel Ward
wait why the fuck is the first stripe white?
Grayson Perez
I know what you meant. I was making a civil war joke.
Funny enough that part of the united states probably cares most out of anyone about their ethnic heritage and they actually supported nazi germany on its rise to power because a ton of germans were living there.
Jaxson Butler
>of America WTF I hate united statians now
Blake Smith
>Continental States of America looks REALLY cool honestly
Elijah Jackson
Can your cunts please unite?
Andrew Hall
It's a sound argument, but when we say it, "you're only saying that because you are a butthurt south american". It also makes sense because when Americans are abroad and we ask them where they are from, they usually say the name of the state or city, instead of USA, indicating possibly a lack of national identity, or maybe just an identification stronger with the state rather than the country.
Anthony Flores
Why do other americans not from the united states need a special snowflake name? They shiuld kust call themselves american
Logan Gonzalez
*should just
Charles Roberts
>they usually say the name of the state or city, instead of USA, indicating possibly a lack of national identity That's surprisingly true... Why didn't I notice this before? >inb4 German identity crysis
Christopher Wright
Feel free to learn all fifty states and identify us with them instead. It's really for your convenience so don't complain.
Daniel Watson
>Feel free to learn all fifty states and identify us with them instead. I do already, maybe not so much the stereotypes of smaller states, but I know more than you know about west european stereotypes, which is much easier, because our countries have names...
Gabriel Brown
Because they're not a fucking country, they're a federation of independent states under a common federal government. And those states have their own names. They're what European Union will be in the next 30-40 years if EU doesn't fall apart due to national sentiment.
Christ Germans are dense.
Kevin Gonzalez
Because nebraskan and idahoan aren't ethnicities and it's disingenuous to say you're native american when actual native americans exist and are like 1% of our population.
It's the difference of askign someone what their ethnicity is and what their nationality is. We're just a weird country like that ever since 1965. We're not like super inbred like some of the other commonwealths and claims a particular ethnicity because of it.
Ayden Robinson
Germany is a federal republic of states too. I doubt theirs are anywhere near as autonomous as ours however.
Oliver Price
and can claim*
Christian Martin
Their government model is exactly like ours from our republican days. If the USA isn't a country due to it being a federation than neither are we.
Christian Adams
why do you think entire planet calls you Holland and not "The Netherlands"?
Gabriel Butler
The Kingdom of the Netherlands even consists of four full blown countries, while the Netherlands itself consists of provinces which used to be called states.
Our parliament and senate combined is called The States General. The senate represents the states while the parliament represents the people.
Owen Scott
Argentinians live in the american continent, and are therefore americans your country's name is so lame, as much as United Arab Emirates
Zachary Cox
In the Netherlands the provinces have the exact same powers as the national government, as long as they don't contradict the laws of the national government.
Same goes for cities. Cities have the exact same powers as the national government, as long as they don't contradict the laws of the national government.
Logan Rivera
So what? Mexico is also a bunch of united states on the continent of america. Get a real name fags
Dylan Bennett
City laws can't contradict provincial laws either. Obviously.
Nathaniel Adams
Kinda funny that you're responding with such a statement, while is able to give a good explanation.
So you're the united states of America? Interesting...
Isaac Harris
Every fucking federal state works like that. Ever heard of the HRE, or the Dutch Republic?
Hudson Anderson
>Because they're not a fucking country, they're a federation of independent states under a common federal government. Is this a joke? A common federal government is exactly what makes a country. Following your logic, no federal countries are actual countries, which includes brasil, mexico, germany, and others
Dominic Allen
I suggest a new name: shartinmartistan Weimerica Obesiopia
Adam Price
>Following your logic, no federal countries are actual countries, which includes brasil, mexico, germany, and others they aren't.
William Scott
Lol ok Go to bed Polaski
Dominic Moore
It's not a nation-state, so it's hard to pick a name to it. Plus if they even get some now, the paperwork would be immense. So fuck off with autism, m8.
Owen Price
Who's 'you'? I'm portuguese m8
Nathaniel Baker
Lets gave burgers a real name
Luke Bailey
I intended to also click on because of my post , but must have misclicked... Don't know what happened...
Tyler Peterson
Columbia would be the closest to the kind of name you're looking for. In the 18 and 19 centuries, other countries referred to the USA as Columbia in the same context that the UK would be called Britannia.
Liam Thompson
But Columbus was looking for India and found your continent instead. This makes you Indians, or not?
Angel Cruz
That's what we call our natives
Lucas Edwards
There are two kind of countries my friend: Those with names and those who sent the man to the moon
Hudson Russell
That would be like everyone not Greek referring to themselves as Barbarian.
Josiah Wright
Thank you named american
Jose Davis
>implying
Colton Gonzalez
>What would happen if Canada and Mexico unite? Would they be the united states of America as well?
If they became US states, yes. Otherwise they would probably be protectorates like Puerto Rico or Guam, AKA "sort of states but not really."
Jacob Davis
Germany is literally named "Federal Republic of [fuzzy geographical region]". You country doesn't even cover all of what is historically and culturally included in the geographical concept of Germany.
Caleb Nguyen
>[fuzzy geographical region] Nah man it's the "People's land", that's why all the immigrants want to go there
Ayden Howard
lol stupid g*rm subhuman
Daniel Harris
It's still a better suited name m8. When you think of it, pretty much all countries in Europe are named 'land of' followed by a generic vague description of the area or the people that lived there. Only exception I can think of right now may be Portugal.
Jayden Garcia
the US always thought state > federal government
Liam Ortiz
are you actually retarded
Tyler Brown
That's literally the same thing as America, you're just replacing one explorer for another. Plus, it is and was already the name of another country. Dumb yankees at it again.
Evan Ramirez
I hereby christen thee Burgerland.
David Hall
It has a nice ring to it.
Andrew Brooks
1.) Colombia was not a country yet. District of Columbia predates Colombia's independence. 2.) Colombia is not Columbia. I knew some faggot was going to mix this up. 3.) I merely stated facts that you could look up and verify.
Jack Campbell
Why are Unitedstatians / Shartinmartians so butthurt in this thread?
Brayden Roberts
you sound like the butthurt one
Justin Peterson
Australia is 6 united states on the continent of Australia. Why don't we call ourselves the Unites States of Australia
Jace Lopez
>I'm not native american at all, so I call myself american, or if you want to get larpy family history about it I'm irish-english american. You'll find all kinds of blends in certain states liek CA or NY, where people are half english and 12% polish or some shit. >It's basically "ethnicity" - "nationality" here.
Hunter Brooks
Gran Colombia was already a thing. Just name it after some English explorer or something, jeez.
John Baker
Why don't you??
Colton Anderson
You do actually, except Australia isn't the continent but the landmass.
Evan Allen
Australia is the continent
Samuel Walker
2/10 australia where's the argument?
Everyone in america has a snowflake attitude we know this already.
Luke Price
I'm not arguing just laughing you dumb fuck
Liam Turner
The continent is either Oceania or Sahul, depending on what language you speak.
Angel Taylor
Oceania is the region, not the continent
Isaac Green
kek
Charles Fisher
>depending on what language you speak Oceania is continent in Spanish
Joshua Rogers
In my language that region is a continent. In english, it's Sahul.
Easton Cook
they call themselves americans because they are from united states of america user-kun 0: no one else in the american continent refers to themselves as americans as europeans refer to themselves as european because americans have pretty much taken that title for themselves and they seem content with that
Samuel Murphy
literally never heard of Sahul, we say the continent is Australia or Australinea
Matthew Powell
Probably wrong, since you assume bigger landmass = continent, when in reality bigger landmass + the other landmasses = continent
Caleb Cook
It's like us calling ourselves united states of asia, saying we are asianz when someone asks for nationality fucking kek this is ridiculous. Come on united statesians, get a real name. Every real real country has like 10 different names in different languages xD
John Perry
Fuck you. Your name rules don't apply to us. We do what we want.
Evan Cooper
Svearike Konungarilet sverige Svea Svealand Svitjod
Sweden has 5 names for itself, yet america has no name? Wew.
Logan Perez
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Liam Jenkins
why don't you read more about the American Revolution before you talk shit about our country's name.
Ethan King
>the world's country naming system doesn't apply to us >the world's date formatting system doesn't apply to us >the world's length measuring system doesn't apply to us >the world's weight measuring system doesn't apply to us >the world's volume measuring system doesn't apply to us >the world's temperature measuring system doesn't apply to us
Carter Cook
Yeah, all of that applies, and we're doing fine. Don't like it? Stop us.
Nathaniel Perez
You're on the best way of stopping yourself with your political issues...
Jose Sullivan
There were 13 colonies fighting against the British in the American Revolution. since they declared their independence, they were no longer colonies. So they were called states instead. All 13 were United in fighting the British for their country. Finally the continent was North America, thus America. That's basically how the United States of America got it's name. >As a follow up question, what do citizens of this country call themselves? American. No other nation in the Americas calls themselves American. hell, some even get offended if you call them that.
Adam Myers
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Asher Cook
this is not even an argument this is the stupidest thing i've ever heard, i'll keep this retard reply.
Josiah Carter
This can be explained by comparing it to the formation of the German Empire.
The demonym "German" had been in use since the Romans identified the area as "Germania". The Germans called themselves "Deutsche" and it naturally came to be that they inhabited "Deutsche Staaten" which would eventually become "Deutschland". "Deutsch" has its roots in a old Germanic word for people so their country literally means "Country of People".
The United States was on a new continent and was inhabited by many different peoples from all across Europe and indigenous tribes. They identified by their ethnicity and colony (eg Virginia, Maryland etc) but what united them all when it came to fighting the United Kingdom was that they were "American". When the colonies united to fight in the Revolution they were no longer English, but rather they were Americans belonging to different colonies which would eventually become united states.
John Rogers
We originally intended to conquer the entire continent when we named our cunt.
Hudson Sullivan
The 13 colonies formed an alliance to fight the British, and were meant to be a union of mostly-independent states according to the Articles of Confederation, but that system crashed and burned almost immediately. So even though the government changed, the name stuck.
Isaac Bennett
OP are you a fucking retard? IT'S A NAME! And it's our name! No one else has that name but us, and it works with us due to our history where we united to kick brit ass. Also let's be honest, think of America and you INSTANTLY think of USA. Fucking even the leafs and mexicans say they hate Americans and are talking about USA. We're NUMBER ONE BABY!
Jackson Foster
>No one else has that name but us.
did u know that an entire continent has that name?
Zachary Diaz
>those stripes Because that country doesn't exist. Where did you find such a silly picture and why did you think it would be a good idea to post it?