Because “American” is not their word for themselves. It is the Latinized last name of the Italian explorer (Amerigo Vespucci) who explored the continents.
It would be offensively ironic to name the original dwellers of this land mass after the guy, it would be assimilation.
Not really. Those are human made concepts, so you must start from the inception of the concept of immigration. Good luck finding the exact date, since it predates written language :/
A lot of people here thinking the USA is speed running fascism here.
No, the USA was always an inspiration to fascism (just ask the remaining Native Americans as an example).
That’s why it was able to adopt into it so quick. Not that hard to change a car to gasoline if it was already running on diesel.
Is almost a good analogy, but that’s not so easy 😅
Frying fat would have been better, because most older diesels run on it out of the box.
Who gets their frying fat in a box?
Every restaurant I’ve seen with a fryer installed. Jugs don’t stack well, everything comes in boxes at the production level.
Well it did take awhile, but it’s definitely easier than turning a horse into an electric car
just have to replace the engine, how hard could it be? /s
better analogy would be converting a (relatively modern) gas engine to E85, it’s simpler, from what i understand
Yep, but to be fair, he’s not an expert in archaeology, so probably he didn’t realise.
Before WW2 broke out, the New York Times LOVED Mussolini. They kept pumping out articles about how much of a cool guy he was.
What if we called the original people Americans, and the newcomers immigrant Americans?
Clarity: Native American -> American
American -> Immigrant American
Because “American” is not their word for themselves. It is the Latinized last name of the Italian explorer (Amerigo Vespucci) who explored the continents.
It would be offensively ironic to name the original dwellers of this land mass after the guy, it would be assimilation.
And due to the transitive property of humans, if we follow this through to its logical conclusion then native Americans are immigrant Americans too
All life on land is an immigrant is it not?
Not really. Those are human made concepts, so you must start from the inception of the concept of immigration. Good luck finding the exact date, since it predates written language :/