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Google Maps reclassifies the U.S. as a 'sensitive country'

Google Maps reclassifies the U.S. as a 'sensitive country'

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·February 1, 2025
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elmerfud

I don't have a problem with wanting to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America but I do have a problem with Trump and a lot of other people using the term America or American to refer solely to the United States. That is not what the term means and that's not the name of our country.

We could be called America if we want but someone would have to propose a name change and it still wouldn't completely co-op the use of the word America to stop having it refer to this entire hemisphere. We all understand that Columbia is a country but Columbia is also a term to refer to this hemisphere which is why we have a place in the United States called Washington district of Columbia. No one confuses that as being a part of the nation of Columbia.

So in the terms of it being the Gulf of the Americas, It absolutely is it's not completely encompassed by one country. We as a nation need to stop calling ourselves Americans as an exclusionary term simply referring to United States citizens. All of us in this hemisphere are Americans but have a different nationalities.

emchammer

Colombia is the country in South America. This country was almost named the United States of Columbia at its founding. I like the Spanish translation of Americans being something like Unitedstatesians.

I don't think Google Maps classifying three of the largest countries in the world by area as "sensitive", whatever that is supposed to mean, helps the situation.