Israel!

I don't see the problem with the name "United States of America." Is there some confusion with some other United States of America? I could understand people from the United States of Mexico (actual name) having an issue.

Or is it because so many people from other countries in this hemisphere refer to themselves as "Americans"? Let's see, that would include people from... um... uh...

On the other hand, the USA could use a better national anthem. "The Star-Spangled Banner" is just so darned hard to sing well.

United States Ltd?

america is the continent and mexico is a country that is compose of different states... see?

no, the united-statians (estadounidenses - in spanish itfits very well) has proclaim themselves "americans" and the rest of the world follows.

either way is incorrect and the US doesnt have a proper name.

The Country With No Name.

is that a song?

We were calling ourselves Americans before there was anyone else around to dispute the claim (aside from the indigenous peoples of course, but that's a whole different topic.) It would make just as much sense to start insisting the continents of North and South America be renamed to reduce the confusion.

Rename the continent to Cristobalia. It's not fair that Columbus only gets a country, while Vespucci gets the whole continent.

u can call yourselves what u want but that doesnt make it correct.

my theory is that the US was of the idea that they will possessed all the countries from canada and all the way down to central america when they started their "manifest destiny" crap... and they saw themselves (and still does) as the truely americans.

America Inc.


columbus shouldnt have anything named after him.

@Salmaneser: The country that must not be named

Did anyone else just realize that the US is Voldemort!?

;0)

similar temperments at the least

Pitirre, do you realize you are an idiot, or is this just a joke thread?

Nobody ever seriously considers the US changing its name. Its always something just thrown around in mockery.

I will accept any name change you would like to give the US so long as I am named Supreme and All-Powerful Ruler for Life of the new nation.

At one point, a secondary name for the USA was 'Columbia'. We could go with that. :)

coulumbus does not deserved to be honored

Imperialand

Columbus never stepped foot on the continent proper on any account (or any Western Hemisphere continent, for that matter) <.<

@Sicarius: Why not? Nearly everything is named after someone... And whether he was first or not, he still brought back the knowledge to mainland Europe that this place existed and indirectly kicked off the immigration to the west. While it's debatable whether this was a good thing, it's what happened, and naming it after the person who brought us this knowledge certainly doesn't seem offbase.

he didnt discover anything. people were already here. he wasn't the first european to come to the americas. he wasnt the first european, or forgeiner to settle to new world.

when he first seen the natives his first thought was whether or not they would make good slaves

am i an idiot? maybe... yes?? but still the US should consider looking for a name or just plain "the united states".

...wow..alright in response to the Imperialand..lol noone can really talk there..especially if you are in Europe..doesnt anyone remember Africa, and how the European powers royally screwed them? Or the saying that the sun never set on the British Empire..imperialism is far from what the US is, and whats the problem with the United States..its what we are lol..you can say the same about France or England..get a better name to you too.

The USA has a great name. You know who needs a new name? Every country in Europe. I mean, come on, "France"? "Germany"? It's not like Germany is the ONLY place with German people. I don't see how anyone with a conscience could disagree with me, and this goes for all the European countries.

Pitirre; they aren't called the United States of America for no reason.

You realize that every state has their own government? Technically, every state in the United States of America is its own free-reigning government body. However, they bandied together and became a Union of states, with equal or semi-equal power, who elect a reigning ruler for a certain amount of time.

Naming it anything different would betray the fact that we are what we are; the United States of America. The only possible change would be The United States of North America, and that isn't happening.

You sir, pitirre, are an idiot.

The sun never sets on American occupied territory and governments forced onto people by the American military!

@Sicariu: I'm not saying he was the first to discover it. He was the first to discover it and bring it to the general awareness in Europe.

brutorix lol

thats good

See? America brings light to the world, as Brutorix just pointed out.

The United States of America is a perfectly acceptable name.

McCain, just think of all the people we disenfranchise by naming ourselves something entirely appropriate! The poor souls must be in anguish over their inability to change their own countries' names to the same thing!

Warzone.

guanshao, see... u even notice that it is more correct to call the US of "North America"... but as you so arrogantly say "is not going to happen" even so is more correct (and still it is not).

look at spain, spain surely has within their goverment different cultures and many of those "states" has their own language and culture (not like the US that they just expanded but ALL are the same) and following your "great" analysys spain should call themself the "europeans" just because they happened to be in europe and because they have different "states" within their goverment.

now, that is SURELY stupid!

from now lets call the spanish, the europeans, everytime we mean the spanish.

Pitirre, you obviously can't read, or formulate conscious thought. I refuse to even debate this further with such a dullard.

Congrats on not understanding basic english.

jaque mate!

How about this: disregard names because they're absolutely meaningless. It's not like the Patriot Act has anything to do with patriotism. It's not like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has anything to do with appropriate copyright law for the so-called "Digital Millennium". It's not like the European Union actually *unifies* European states into anything meaningful.

No, ednos, because the United States of America means something. Its a group of Nation states that came together to shirk off the oppression of a an imperialistic England during the time. If Canada decided that they no longer wanted to recognize the Queen of England as their queen, and wanted to join the USA, they would indeed still be called the USA. They would not change the name to The USAC, "The United States of American and Canada", because its just that; united states, that have come together, to form a large part of North America.

The Spain argument; They wouldn't call themselves Europe. They could call themselves The United States of the Iberian Peninsula, or something of the sort, but your argument makes less sense than your argument against 'American Oppression in Puerto Rico'.

Why stop at America?

Great Britian obviously needs a name change. They may once have been great, but recently? Where is the empirical evidence for this so called greatness?

Easter Island? This tiny little landmass certainly can't lay claim to the most important religious holiday to 1/4 of the world's population.

What about places like Democratic Republic of the Congo? Should they really be allowed to use the word "Democratic" in their name? They're certainly not really one of the more democratic places in the world.

And Myanmar aka Burma? The Burmese were just the most powerful of tribes in the area and so they went and named the whole country after themselves.

The vast majority of countries are named after the group/culture of people living in them now. How is it any better for all of those old world nations to call themselves Bulgaria, Thailand, Hungary etc? All of those lands were once populated by other peoples who were overrun when the Bulgars, Thais, Huns etc invaded and settled down. Should it matter that it happened 1000 years ago instead of a few hundred? If you need another example, look at the thread from a last week about Greek and Macedonia.

Americans are aware of the borders to their north and south. It's not as though they're laying claim to two entire continents in their hearts every time they refer to themselves as "American" or shorten United States of America to simply "America" in a sentence.

hahaha... the united states of the iberian peninsula! hahah...
why cant you be so specific with the US?

read about how your US goverment had planned that the island of puerto rico was an ideal island/military base and from all the early 20th century the puerto ricans lived in hunger they never experience before with the idea to get out from puerto rico the puerto ricans... all this cuased by the US goverment.

I bet the Portugese would be mad about that name.

Your last sentence doesn't even make sense pitirre.

We (the USA) should have picked up Cuba rather than Puerto Rico when we had the chance.

still on about land grabbing, smithwesson?

The name Spain in fact implies that Spain owns the entire Iberian peninsula, or at least it did. Hispania was the name for all the land south of the Pyrenees.

Sorry, my mind slipped about Portugal, but they could still lay claim to that name, as they are a united group of nation states under one leader.

Pitirre, I really wish you had another argument that wasn't about your Communist view on American Diplomacy in Puerto Rico. its frankly sad that you have no other evidence besides some flimsy bit of conspiracy theory.

United $tates of America?

Yes, we get the Dollar sign because our dollars is worth less than the canadian one?

GuanShao, we named it to have significance, sure, and the name is indeed true--we are some states united in America. The name itself, though, isn't something so meaningful that someone should fight over it or even bother debating its accuracy. As people have already stated, that America is in the name does not mean our government claims both continents as its own.

exactly Ednos, exactly.