American Made...American Gods...American This...American That...
so many pretentious titles
shareI guess nationalism sells in nationalistic nations.
I don't personally care, the word 'American' is kind of pleasant to my eyes.
However, it's not a logical name for a country in my opinion. It's very confusing, when you think about it - what should the real name of that kind of country be? Should it even get its identity from unification of geographical pieces within the middle portion of a continent?
Couldn't there be something more interesting, something with more personality, something more expressive? Land of the Free, Home of the Brave would really not fit, either, because there are SO many rules, restrictions and forbidden things - you are not even free to eat a mushroom you find in a forest. Brave? People don't even dare be honest with each other or avoid smalltalk-culture! Just look at any 'american' youtuber and watch them all say basically the SAME, EXACT THING at the beginning of every single video..
How brave!
In any case, the word 'America' is both weird and problematic, especially if you know the history of it. It was supposed to be 'Colombia' something, I think.. also, why is the 'C' in 'Washington D.C.' 'Colombia'? Shouldn't it be 'America' or 'USA' or..? (Of course it wouldn't be a 'C' in that case)
I mean, there is south-America, North-America, all of which have multiple countries in them.
How can a PORTION of one of the Americas represent 'America'? Even the 'states' are not really 'of America', but 'of the southern half of the North America', really.
Whether those states are 'united' or not, is not even relevant, is it? Why would some unification that happened in the past be of any relevance, when you look at people in that country and see just how DIVIDED they are?
Maybe 'once-united-but-now-divided'... also, why would 'states' be more important than 'people'?
What would be the most honest name for this particular country (the concept of a 'country' is yet another thing people don't like to think about too much, they just accept it
...as something 'normal')?
Let's try at least something..
- The United States of Southern Half of North America And Some Occupied Areas in Polynesia And Other Places (I mean, Guam, Puerto Rico, etc. are not states, so how can they be part of 'United STATES' of anything? Let alone 'America', all of which are very far away from them, geographically speaking!)
- The Divided Crazies of Modern Times with Customizable Pronouns
I don't know, this problem probably does not have a real solution, but the name of 'The United States of America' makes no more sense than calling people living there 'Americans' (At least call them TUSOAIANS or something!)..
Of course, thinking of honesty and accuracy, 'Americans' should probably be called
TUSOSHONAASOAIPAOPians..
(Doesn't really roll off the tongue, though..)