My brother isn’t a fool, but I am curious how many children especially in the Florida area will have to grow up being taught that it’s the Guld of America while their own parents think why? while most of the world and country looks at them like really?

So to not be a complete ass and prepare for the future, what do you guys think would be adviseable to both address such in person, teach your kids to address in person, and address it in a manner so a child is treating like discussionn, not a “clash” per say .

I have to acknowledge there may very well be a time when my niece/nephew were told by their teacher in school, there is no Gulf of Mexico

  • Pika@sh.itjust.works
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    If you look at the gulf from basically any other countries location (via vpn or otherwise) it’s still named as Gulf Of Mexico in most map software.

    As much as Trump doesn’t like the thought, this name change is not going to be permanent. Names need to be accepted universally, you can’t just take something and say “yea its called this now” while everyone else laughs at you and expect that it’s going to stay.

    for perspective, this is what it looks like on google maps (top) and apple maps(bottom) while vpn’d into Toronto. (excuse my poor copy/paste skills) Both clearly show that the gulf of Mexico is named the gulf of Mexico, and then add in parenthesis the new name that the US wanted to implement.

    screenshot of gulf of mexico for both google maps(top) and apple maps(bottom)

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    Tell them it’s the

    Gulf of Gexico

    Now for a serious note, I’ll recognize the name “Gulf of America” if and only if they admit that America is the whole continent, and that the country has no actual name.

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      did you make this edit or is this an actual promotional image. (fully mean this as a compliment is you made this it’s so good and I’m cracking up at gex’s classic shit eating grin)

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    Legally it’s the Gulf of Mexico. This is one of those hills I will die on where I will never call it the Gulf of America. Fortunately for me it never comes up, but if I were a student and was taught the wrong thing, I would correct the teacher and never fall in line. There’s right and wrong, and Gulf of America is factually wrong.

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    The United States cannot rename international bodies of water. There is an established procedure for doing so, it was not followed, and so its name objectively remains the same.

    Calling it the gulf of America is about as pointless as pissing in the wind. All it does is identify you as a fasicst cultist or someone equally ignorant.

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    For an administration that hates preferred names, they sure do love renaming shit. Gulf of America, Department of War, Trump Kennedy Center, etc.

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    Once (if) this fucking clown show of an “administration” is gone, it’ll be reverted back by the adults.

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    Every piece of land or sea you’ve ever known has been known by another name in the past. It’s just that nobody respects the person or the process used to enact this change so it’s doubtful it will stick beyond his death.