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by starfezzy 497 days ago
Ignoring the bombasticism of certain individuals, Gulf of America seems like a reasonable name.

The shores are roughly 50% not-Mexico, and both countries are America.

This is progressivism.

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The name change coming from the F your feelings crowd who believe you shouldn’t be able to call yourself whatever you want.
Like trans stuff?
Bit weird to rename something after 400 years for purely nationalistic reasons though. Maybe Mexicans will be up for it though if Americans accept being called Unitedstatesians in English.
The name is now finally NOT centered around one nation.

Plus, it's the opposite of weird. National reasons are the most frequent cause for renaming areas after hundreds of years.

Additionally, the order doesn't change the name of any gulf along Mexico's Eastern shoreline. So whether they're "up for it" is inconsequential.

>The name is now finally NOT centered around one nation.

'Gulf of the Americas' would make more sense in that case. But that doesn't project the intended message from the new administration.

You can justify it however you want, but the intention was not to be inclusive and I think that's pretty clear. Unless talking about annexing Greenland and absorbing Canada are also just ways of making us one big happy family, I think the intention of the name is clear, regardless of how much sense one can force it to make after the fact.

The name predates Mexico by 200 years. The name refers to the city of Mexico, smack dab in the middle of the gulf.
Salient point, the US is the only American country with America in it's actual name. Names of things change. It's how language works. Even though I think Gulf of America is actually more apt a name, I and most people in the US could care less what it's called. It's just Trump playing power games like China does with the "South China Sea" v. "Sea of Japan".
Just call them USians. When I say 'americans' I often talk about north Americans, I use USians to disambiguate.
I have never heard American refer to anything but a United States resident, so I seriously doubt you. USian is disrespectful to the preferred demonym, if you do care about that.
Pedantically, the formal name of Mexico is Estados Unidos Mexicanos, or United States (of) Mexico. USians would then be ambiguous.
Remember freedom fries saga? Pepperidge farm remembers. Roughly same emotional load, roughly same reasons and reasonability behind
Imagine being triggered by french fries, sad.
The shores are 100% "America", referring to the North and South American continents. It's as if the EU renamed the Baltic Sea as the "Sea of Europe", as an attempted swipe at Russia, ignoring that Russia also is (partly) in Europe.
This name makes zero sense and is entirely stupid. Something like a gulf is named for its proximity to the immediate geographic body to identify it with increased precision. This is clear effort to pander to nationalism and racism, and to stir shit up and get people mad about it. It's old tricks.