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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish30•edit-210 days agoThey can name it how they want. They could name it piss puddle and the rest of the world wouldn’t care, it’ll still be Gulf of Mexico.
minus-square@CocodapuflinkEnglish-1•9 days agoThat’s an interesting theory, we may just test that out. But I suspect that ten years from now, it’s name will be whatever it’s been saying on the maps. Just ask New Yorkers (sorry, I mean new Amsterdamers).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-26 days agoNew Amsterdam is different, that was hundreds of years ago before there were millions of printed maps, and it’s a different thing to rename own landmarks after a conquest versus something which isn’t within your country.
They can name it how they want. They could name it piss puddle and the rest of the world wouldn’t care, it’ll still be Gulf of Mexico.
That’s an interesting theory, we may just test that out.
But I suspect that ten years from now, it’s name will be whatever it’s been saying on the maps. Just ask New Yorkers (sorry, I mean new Amsterdamers).
New Amsterdam is different, that was hundreds of years ago before there were millions of printed maps, and it’s a different thing to rename own landmarks after a conquest versus something which isn’t within your country.