Your favorite city along the Gulf of Mexico?

Golfe du Mexique

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Sudacafan said:
Your Geography knowledge is superb: The Rio Grande indeed flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
That must be 8,000 kilometers far from my hometown, but that is negligible.
By the way, I still haven’t met an Aztecian.
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I think that converts to like 8 miles. Did not know there was a Gulf of MExico, I see a Gulf of America on the map though.

Aztecians only come out at night during the spanish new year. I am a geology teacher so I know my maps. I was however talking about your hometown Rio de Janerio in Portugal.
 
Please add a poll to the thread. I don’t remember any relevant city, town, or village on that coast.
 
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Will be going back to beautiful Panama City Beach, in a couple months. Despite visiting nearly a dozen times, it will be the first time I will be stepping foot in the Gulf of America. :cool:
 
Lleytonstation said:
I think that converts to like 8 miles. Did not know there was a Gulf of MExico, I see a Gulf of America on the map though.
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What map source are you looking at? Google? Officially. the Gulf of America is known as the Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de Mexico) nearly everywhere except in the US -- and even then, most of us are still inclined to refer to it as the Gulf of Mexico (which has been its name since the mid 1500s)
 
fritzhimself said:
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Most of the World, even most of North and South America, do not accept the Gulf of America as the official name for the Gulf of Mexico (aka Golfo de Mexico). The IHO does not recognize the name change dictated by D Trump.

Even tho the AP started off as an American news source in the late 1800s (based in NYC), it has been a global/ international news wire agency since WW II. As most of the world does not accept Trump's name change, the AP is not inclined to accept his superficial, pointless name change in its reporting. News sources all over the world use new stories provided by AP.

The AP, along with Reuters and the French-based, AFP, are recognized as the top 3 new agencies in the world. The are regarded among the most reliable / factual internation news sources. Minimal bias.
 
Tronald Dump's frivolous Gulf name change is yet another lame effort to pass himself off as a patriot. A "patriot" who has little respect for the US Constitution, little regard for the system of checks & balances put into place by our founding fathers, and is a renegade who believes that he is above the law.

Just as he is a counterfeit Christian, this wannabe dictator is phoney (faux) flag-waver.
 
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SystemicAnomaly said:
What map source are you looking at? Google? Officially. the Gulf of America is known as the Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de Mexico) nearly everywhere except in the US -- and even then, most of us are still inclined to refer to it as the Gulf of Mexico (which has been its name since the mid 1500s)
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I always thought it was the Gulf of the Aztecs.
 
SystemicAnomaly said:
Most of the World, even most of North and South America, do not accept the Gulf of America as the official name for the Gulf of Mexico (aka Golfo de Mexico). The IHO does not recognize the name change dictated by D Trump.

Even tho the AP started off as an American news source in the late 1800s (based in NYC), it has been a global/ international news wire agency since WW II. As most of the world does not accept Trump's name change, the AP is not inclined to accept his superficial, pointless name change in its reporting. News sources all over the world use new stories provided by AP.

The AP, along with Reuters and the French-based, AFP, are recognized as the top 3 new agencies in the world. The are regarded among the most reliable / factual internation news sources. Minimal bias.
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The US people (Americans) have already claimed the name of an entire continent stretching from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego for themselves - what more could they possibly desire?
 
Sudacafan said:
The US people (Americans) have already claimed the name of an entire continent stretching from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego for themselves - what more could they possibly desire?
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We consider the Americas as 2 continents, not just one. As do geologists. Each of the Americas (NA and SA) are separate plates that collided several million years ago. This means that NA and SA were seperate when early hominids (before H0m0 Erectus) roamed the Earth. That were also separate during the age in dinosaurs. At one time, NA was adjacent to Europe while SA was adjacent to the African Plate.
 
SystemicAnomaly said:
We consider the Americas as 2 continents, not just one. As do geologists. Each of the Americas (NA and SA) are separate plates that collided several million years ago. This means that NA and SA were seperate when early hominids (before H0m0 Erectus) roamed the Earth. That were also separate during the age in dinosaurs. At one time, NA was adjacent to Europe while SA was adjacent to the African Plate.
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I think you did not understand what I meant.
 
Sudacafan said:
I think you did not understand what I meant.
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I fully understood the primary point you were making but did not choose to address it in that post.

Instead, I was addressing the fact that you regard the Americas as a single (entire) continent while we and much of the world regards it as 2 continents that bumped into each other a few million years ago.

I don’t know who first started referring to citizens / residents of the USA as Americans. Perhaps it was the Brits or other Europeans. Don’t know if it originated here. Perhaps it did.

America is an integral part of the name of the USA. I suppose it’s most convenient to refer to the ppl of the US as Americans. What alternative would you propose? United Statesians? United States of Americans? Neither of these flow smoothly off the tongue — both sound unwieldy. Better alternative without fundamentally changing the name of the country?
 
SystemicAnomaly said:
I fully understood the primary point you were making but did not choose to address it in that post.

Instead, I was addressing the fact that you regard the Americas as a single (entire) continent while we and much of the world regards it as 2 continents bumped into each other a few million years ago.

I don’t know who first started referring to citizens / residents of the USA as Americans. Perhaps it was the Brits or other Europeans. Don’t know if it originated here. Perhaps it did.

America is an integral part of the name of the USA. I suppose it’s most convenient to refer to the ppl of the US as Americans. What alternative would you propose? United Statesians? United States of Americans? Neither of these flow smoothly off the tongue — both sound unwieldy. Better alternative without fundamentally changing the name of the country?
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Reported.

Historically America was one piece of area inhabited by non Europeans, undiscovered for Western purposes. They even say it was populated throughout the Bering Strait when it was dry, with Asian origin people.
When people say American they don’t include South Americans. Go choose other name for ya.

Following the same physical line of reasoning, Europe and Asia shouldn’t be different continents, they should be just an Indo-European land continuum.
 
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Sudacafan said:
Reported.

Historically America was one piece of area inhabited by non Europeans, undiscovered for Western purposes. They even say it was populated throughout the Bering Strait when it was dry, with Asian origin people.
When people say American they don’t include South Americans. Go choose other name for ya.

Following the same physical line of reasoning, Europe and Asia shouldn’t be different continents, they should be just an Indo-European land continuum.
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Since both Americas were already ocupado, before European discovery and settlement, as you point out, perhaps the name. America, should not be applied to the continents either. Perhaps we should call them North New World and South New World?

The USA is not going to change its name. Nor should it be expected to. I’m asking for an alternative name for its inhabitants if not “Americans”.

I agree that Europe + Asia are really just a single continent— Eurasia — as seen by most geologists. I don’t have an issue with labeling it Eurasia or the Euro-Asian continent.
 
SystemicAnomaly said:
The USA is not going to change its name.
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That’s precisely where the issue originates.

What if Spain, France, Portugal and Italy unite and establish the Unite States of Europe, and they start to be called “Europeans” by all the world?
Everyone understanding there’s just them.
What would Germans and Italians say?
(Britons wouldn’t give a fk, because it’s always been just them.)
 
Sudacafan said:
We call them Yankees ignoring the Southerners.
Ignorance is all around.
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It’s a matter of history, not ignorance. The name, America, was first used in the early 16th century in reference to the New World. The terms, Americans, was sometimes used to refer to any inhabitant in the New World, esp in the 16th & 17th century. Some map makers back then used the names, North America and South America.

The British colonies in NA were often referred to as British America. Once they unite and broke away from the Brits in the late 18th they adopted the name, United States of America (rather than British America). The term, Americans, was increasingly used to refer to inhabitants of the USA — more so than to inhabitants of all of the Americas

Yanks or Yankees was used by the Brits to refer to inhabitants of the British America colonies, especially to ppl in New England (northern colonies). In the US Civil War (mid 19th century), Yanks was used by those in the Confederacy in reference to those in the Northern States.

Since the start of the 20th century, Yanks & Yankees has been used to refer to a pro NY baseball team
 
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Sudacafan said:
That’s precisely where the issue originates.

What if Spain, France, Portugal and Italy unite and establish the Unite States of Europe, and they start to be called “Europeans” by all the world?
Everyone understanding there’s just them.
What would Germans and Italians say?
(Britons wouldn’t give a fk, because it’s always been just them.)
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We would likely refer to them as Western Europeans — as we already do. The name, European, is already pervasive in reference to inhabitants of all of the European subcontinent.
 
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