American Reacts Where is America? | Map Men - Jay Foreman

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[@NiennaT]

many of us brits just call it 'the colonies'

[@TukikoTroy]

Yes, the rest of the world understands why you call yourselves 'American's and not 'United Statesians' ow whatever. But not to worry, the rest of the world has lots of other names for you anyway :D

[@christineharding4190]

🤣🤣🤣

[@marktennant7223]

Exactly, most of us call them USAnians. 🙂

[@MichaelYoder1961]

I like watching Americans try to find other countries on a globe/map. And no, it doesn't snow in Canada all year long.

[@korelamerikano]

As Latin American myself, we always called America the land masses of North America and South America. To us, we kept the OG definition of the New World as it was since the XVI century. The name America become important to us when we achieved our independence from the Spaniards. I feel that "US Americans" feel the same when they kicked out the British. It's a synonymous of Freedom or land of the free. On the other hand, the term evolved in the English speaking world to something closely related on the USA. then American geologist decided that this land was a actually 2 continents which never appealed to us since we shared a common history with Central Americans, Mexico and other Latin American countries in the Caribbean. Our language and other Latin language definitely have a proper way to name US people, United Statians or United Staters. Estadounidenses, estadonidenses, Etatsunien or Statunitensi are other official terms in several Latin Languages. I think we feel like we are being excluded from the American continent when the US claims the name for only themselves or when everyone on earth blames "America" as the greatest evil and we aro no blame of all the shitty actions the US does.

[@Itwasalwaysme_Noone]

I don't know if you know this but you are not alone. If you check the wikipedia article for "continents", you'll see a schematic and mentions of what countries perceive as a continent. The number of continents ranges from 4 all the way to 7. I'm from a country that we see America as 1 continent (6 in total).

[@pootakhu]

@@Itwasalwaysme_Noone4 to 8

[@Dead25m]

They didn't really "decide", they found that North and South America were on 2 different tectonic plates. So they are geological continents, not cultural.

[@pootakhu]

​@@Dead25m Same way Asia and Europe are the "same" continent. Not to mention there are many other sub continents (Indian One) ain it..

[@CaptainAmerica001]

​@@Dead25m Tectonic plates are not continents. If that's the case, then they'd be teaching there are around 15 continents. Are there 15 continents? America is a continent & an American is from the Continent of America!

[@felipe_randolfo]

Yeah, In Spanish language we say "América" (America) for the continent and "Americano" (American) for the gentilic, then you have North America (North part of america) South America (South part of america). The contry U.S.A (United States of America) is "E.U.A. / E.E.U.U. (Estados Unidos de América)" and its inhabitants are "Estadounidense" which means (United Statesian) to make a clear division between the country and the continent. Of course, Mexico also has "United States" in one of its official names (United Mexican States) but since Mexico is not a continent, you can take the word Mexico to make the gentilic.

[@arghjayem]

We associate yawning with tiredness but really it’s just a lack of oxygen hence a big yawn is just an autonomic response to draw in more oxygen. This response occurs when we are tired because when we sleep or are getting ready to sleep our breathing typically slows and hence draws in less oxygen and expels less Co2, but it is not limited to being tired to occur….

[@lynnhamps7052]

I'll be totally honest with you, at times I have been a little unsure whether to stay subscribed as I have at times been a tad wary of your personality, sometimes I felt you came across as a little arrogant and quite surly, BUT, your kind words at the start of this video felt really heartfelt and genuine, and as someone who lost a really important person in my life to depression, they meant a great deal. Just goes to show that judging others is very often done too hastily and I am humbled by that....Love and strength to all those to who suffer any mental illness to fight on, tomorrow will be better xx Stay safe Connor, best wishes from UK.

[@AhsokaTanoTheWhite]

Yeah, Connor has this thing where he pretends to be offended by things, like when Al Murray talks of the time the British sailed into Washington DC and set fire the the White House, which the Americans had the paint white to cover up the White House, which is why it is called the White House, so they owed that to the British.

[@michael_177]

Not gunna lie, i'm not sure what you and ashoka in the comments here are talking about in regards to his personality. I've NEVER picked up on Connor being offended by anything and ive watched almost all his uploads. And the only time ive seen people get butthurt was with the Al Murray reaction, which again i've never seen anywhere else, it was the weirdest thing. I swear so many of us brits are ABSOLUTE snowflakes with 'big empire' mentality stuck in our heads.

[@michael_177]

Although that being said, Connor's 'emotions are a fickle thing' always gets me

[@lynnhamps7052]

@@michael_177 I never mentioned him being offended, I do get his dead pan sense of humour, I think I explained my feelings in my first comment adequately, as well as coming to the conclusion that those feelings were wrong...I was praising his thoughtfulness.

[@stevethomas5849]

Hold the horses 1497 John Cabot stumbled across what he called New Found Land or just Newfoundland up in Canada. Also there was a fellow was involved in arranging this little trip across the Atlantic by the name of Richard Amerike. Too coincidental just saying.

[@Richard_Jones]

I thought his name was Thomas Ap Meric, a Welsh fella from Wales.

[@stevethomas5849]

@@Richard_Jones yes he was Welsh and spelt his name as Ap Meric the Welsh way but the English translation Amerike he was also known as.

[@Souledex]

Also we have definitive proof of genetic exchange between Polynesians, notably on Easter Island, and Precolumbian people living in what is today Columbia. And there is evidence because they brought back sweet potatoes which were not native and an entire pacific ocean away. and also the King before Mansa Musa left due West with a fleet of 2000 ships, with an extra 1000 ships of cargo. Some people think some of them made it to Brazil. There's also some evidence Vinlanders stuck around longer than we thought or even went as far south as Mesoamerica with some limited but very compelling drawings. Also their long term effect in the myths of at least 5 major culture groups around the area. But hey if you hear about them once it also might just stick.

[@leecollison7527]

I suppose in theory it should be known as The United States of Northern America 😁

[@Souledex]

Which would be difficult because Mexico's actual name is the United States of Mexico, and they are in North America. At least Canada calls then Provinces.

[@OttoStrawanzinger]

It‘s what was used in German until the early 20th Century, Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika.

[@cseijifja]

@@Souledex it's not "the united states of mexico" , it's the united mexican states, the other matters here, and the meaning in spanish does not translate into english. Mexico named itself after the mexica people, the leading and exclusive people of the capital. The US just removed the "british" from the "thirtheen colonies of british america", and it stuck because no one really minded what they did or called themselves, but then came ww1 and 2 and tehy spread their bullshit around. To boot, mexico , i believe, uses the single america continent model, wich does give 3 subcontinents in central, north and south america.

[@markpeaple8626]

We have a similar thing on this side of the Atlantic. We are usually called British, but our country is actually The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, usaully shortened to just The United Kingdom or The UK. It would be a bit weird to call us Kingdomish

[@bostonblackie9503]

Once Northern Ireland and Scotland leave there will be no United Kingdom or Great Britain.

[@MrBulky992]

@@bostonblackie9503 Barring further plate tectonics, there will still be "Great Britain" because that is the official name of the largest island in the "British Isles" archipelago (cf Gran Canaria and the Canary Islands). It would become like the name "Scandinavia" - not a nation state but an identifiable geographic area, just as it was before 1707 and before King James commandeered it as a style for his realms in 1603. If Scotland and NI leave the Union, we can still keep "United Kingdom" for what's left e.g. "United Kingdom of England and Wales".

[@juliopage2543]

In Brazil and in other countries of the America (continent) we just call your country "Estados Unidos" and people who is born there "estado-unidense" and I know is the same in most of the countries in Europe (Italy, Spain etc)

[@kevgolds5293]

So thick they don't know where theay

[@blueshirt26]

In Malaysia we call USA "Amerika Syarikat" which literally means "United America" (Syarikat also means Company).

[@panther7748]

6:50 No, I agree with you. :) I just think that US-Americans should put more emphasis on the United States part instead of the America part when talking about the country. (Like I just did... in many countries, people say "the United States" or "US-Americans" instead of "America" and "Americans")

[@teotik8071]

German here. We say americans if we refer to the people from the US. And it's the US(A) or America for us. All other countries/people would be Mexico and Mexicans and so on for example.

[@panther7748]

@@teotik8071 I'm german too.

[@cseijifja]

@@teotik8071 how do you refer to people , in general, from the new world then? or do they use that dumb two continent system over there too?

[@teotik8071]

@@cseijifja Hmmm, we use the term north/middle/south americans or Latin-Americans if we refer to people from Mexico southwards to Patagonia. But as far I can tell using the country name of origin (if known) is mostly preferred in Germany. Sometimes the media calles people from the USA US-Americans to keep it political correct.

[@cseijifja]

@@teotik8071 its not even politically correct , its the correct way to call em .

[@carlh429]

Greater New England. That’s got a nice ring to it.

[@timglennon6814]

So what about the Native Americans? They were populating American 15,000 years ago.

[@cseijifja]

THe biggest populations are either mixed or full citizens with hispano america, mostly in emxico and peru, if anything, they have more right than anyone to be called americans , and STILL the name gets hijacked by aglophones asses.

[@christianefleurant7089]

@@cseijifja In Canada we say The first nations. from Montréal, Québec.

[@patrickwoods254]

United States of Ammunition

[@jameshumphreys9715]

There was an Bristolian/Welsh Merchant called Richard ap Meryk meaning Richard son of Meric, anglicized to Richard Amerike/Ameryk(c), by the way K is not in the welsh alphabet so c is used, if we are going on a welsh, e and r won't combined in welsh as in English, like sistER, y in the beginning or middle multisyllabic make that sound. He was owner of Cabot ship the Matthew.

[@koushikvemuri3130]

So many people I know including me refer to USA as just "The states". But we call the people in USA as Americans. Weird.

[@jeffnorwood-brown8407]

Your explanation of "The United States" was very good. I did not know that. And I don't hate you.

[@Climpus]

Jay Foreman looks like a young Peter Cushing.

[@mathewkelly9968]

In australia we would refer to you as a 'seppo' and other stuff not KZbin friendly .

[@BoatPui]

Call it “Libertyland” 🇺🇸

[@aidanwalsh5906]

Gra-ham, not a weight of measurement. A Gram is not Graham. Why miss the middle part?

[@SotonSam]

MapMen!

[@clemstevenson]

Greater New England, south of British Columbia :-)

[@rayquirk4947]

Yep

[@Colgan1]

Was he going to say at 8:00 "The United States of Great Britain" 😅 he probably meant to say The United Kingdom

[@Cygnus888]

You are called americans, because it's easier than calling you statians or united statians or people of the United States. Edit: At least in english other names sound weird. In spanish other names sound ok.

[@christianefleurant7089]

In french also, we can say: les États-Uniens, les États-Uniennes. from Montréal, Canada

[@geoffwheadon2897]

Was it not the berring crossing in the early first glacial retreat who were the first to "discover " , er, whatsyamacallit? Hahahaha

[@Souledex]

and they were just the last group. You could probably give some Homo Erectus a hundred thousand years and a couple ice ages earlier the credit. But Beringia is actually a much more fascinating idea than they just walked across, I recommend youtubing it.

[@geoffwheadon2897]

@@Souledex thanks, I'll check it out, maybe the Dogger Bank scenario

[@CosminCRT]

Appalachia is actually pretty cool

[@Souledex]

Columbia was proposed near the start as was Fredonia. Even funnier when Washington state named itself that they chose it specifically so it wouldn't be confused with Washington DC, which at the time was more commonly just called the District of Columbia. Like nearly all of Washington is in the watershed of the Columbia river, and they picked that to not confuse people... history makes fools of us all. Once we realized by like 1900 that when our jetsetting socialites sometimes got funny looks when they just called themselves American or in the languages they learned to be more cultured we weren't called that there was a national dialogue about what other names to use (not that it isn't valid to ask, just funny that it took that long for us to notice again). The best one in my opinion was Usonia, as in U.S.onian, the term went out of fashion but does still define an architectural style pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright that would have been great if industry, commerce or cars worked the way he wanted them too. They still look pretty though. no clue if it would be your jam but there is an awesome alternate history setting that had America eventually be known as the Federal Union of Usonia. The Templin Institute did an amazing video on it, and the other countries like the Rusviet Tsardom, and their goofy ww1 but with mechs aesthetic.

[@cseijifja]

that's a game actually, iron harvest, too bad its kidna mediocre.

[@Souledex]

@@cseijifja uh yeah? That’s why Templin made a video about it.

[@srichardson1963]

America may get its name from a welsh guy. john americ. Only Royals give there first name to land or countries. if its a commoner its there surname. so if Amerigo vaspucci gave his name it would be vaspucciland. whereas the maps of the new world were signed by the cartographer a welsh kid called john Americ. just an alternative thinking, but sounds good to me

[@hetrodoxly1203]

You're thinking of Richard Amerike a Bristol merchant, his place of birth is unknown but there's Amerike's in Herefordshire, he funded John Carbot's voyage to America, there's a strange coincidence in his family crest is made up of stars and stripes, it wasn't unusual for new lands discovered to be named after the financer of the voyage.

[@davepb5798]

@@hetrodoxly1203 Also known as Ap Merick, and similar, as he was of Welsh descent.

[@cseijifja]

it makes no sense why the spanish, who ruled the continent for 300 years and actually gave the continent it's name , would name the place under any welshman tho.

[@davepb5798]

@@cseijifja Because Bristol, where Americk/Apmerick was living and working, was the home port of multiple expeditions across the Atlantic. These were part funded by Bristol merchants and venturers, Americk/ApMerick being one. John and Sebastian Cabot also sailed from Bristol.

[@cseijifja]

@@davepb5798 again, it makes no sense why the spanish, at war with the british would give a fliying fuck about what the british named the continent after, the english didnt even had a foothold in the continent for more than a hundred years after its discovery, while spain had an almost undisputed ginormous empire from california to patgonia, includign almost all of modern US. Not only this, britain was a third rate power until the 1700's, why would anyone listen to that denomination? Even 400 years after, the spanish names of states and cities have been kept in the USA itself, like "los angeles", "colorado", "texas", "california", ect.

[@MagisterMalleus]

To my English mind, "America" refers to the whole continent, but "American" refers only to the USA. I don't know why.

[@oliver29731]

To me: The country is called “United States” and “America” is two different continents North and South.

[@evorock]

Based on current laws in Texas I think the more fitting name would actually be Gilead 😒

[@terryhunt2659]

A few weeks ago I watched a KZbin video (sorry, can't re-find it now) which suggested that Waldseemüller (or his collaborator) thought Amerigo Vespucci's discovery sort-of-justified the _already_established_ custom of calling the new continent (now South America) "America", but that the name actually originated as that of the Amerrisque mountains and people in what is now Nicaragua, which Columbus had recently landed near and which he (or his crew) might have talked about.

[@davidrowlands441]

Columbus found the west indies but never set foot on mainland America. There's no doubt that he wasn't the first. Scandinavian, Welsh, Chinese were all there before him but he was the first one to be able to return home afterwards. What about the ones we call native Americans or Red Indians. Where did they originate from cause surely they were the first and they also colonised it but there's no recorded history so maybe it doesn't count!!!

[@jamesohara4295]

US of A.

[@Londronable]

In dutch it's also called "the united states" and not America.

[@LAKD]

Verengende Staten van Amerika

[@hyzenthlay7151]

Well, in spanish we call unitedstatsians...

[@flyingeagle3898]

the China thing 110% wrong. The chinese don't even claim it to be true. A crackpot British guy wrote a book proposing that zheng he went there, but all the actual records of those voyages show him heading in the opposite direction..to Indonesia,India, Arabia, and a couple times to eastern Africa but never north or east. I recommend Wonderwhy's video: America: country or continent? on this topic But the short version is of the "annoyed" list, it mostly annoys Latin Americans. British people usually don't care at all, and Canadians occasionally get mildly annoyed but mostly don't care, people in Latin America though care a lot because of the difference in language and the way they teach continents it makes the US look especially bad and arrogant when we call ourselves "american" even when that is not the intention.

[@GSD-hd1yh]

Whichever name is suggested has problems. The most northern part of The Americas is Canada, so North America is out. South America has already been allocated, so that is out too, as is Central America for the same reasons . The most sensible suggestion is Middle America because of the geographical location between true north and true south. That could result in a title of USMA (United States of Middle America), but that could also be a difficult choice given the current political leanings. People are likely to make up derogatory names based on the lettering, such as Fords "Fix Or Repair Daily", or GMC "Great, More Crap", or Jeep "Just Expect Expensive Repairs". Even Porsche don't escape, with "Pricks Or Rich Shitheads Can Have ‘Em". One possible such result could be USMA - "United Socialist Marxist A55holes", and that would be both unfortunate and doing a disservice to all the decent people living there.

[@wessexdruid5290]

Surely 'Middle America' is just a subset of the USA.

[@amysutt]

just call it new Britain

[@mikkosimonen]

The United States got to call itself America because they called dibs, simple as that.

[@CaptainAmerica001]

America is a continent & an American is from the Continent of America.

[@jaythomaso9311]

Did the UNITED STATES of America decide on our own that the rest of the English speaking "world" should just call it "Americans" or did that kinda just happen? 🤔🤔

[@CaptainAmerica001]

It is a mixture of appropriation & indoctrination because America is a continent & an American is from the Continent of America!

[@reggriffiths5769]

Clever people, whio pinpoint the word "America" placed in Brazil. Don't they realise the word was in Argentina!!! As for the name of the country...well, the magority of countries have theor name ending in "a" or "ia." The people love the overuse of slang, sudh as the word "crap" or "crapola." The've also made it clear that they don't like the idea of kings or queens; and they are still fighting their north v south civil war; therfore I would recommend the name be changed to The disunited Republic of Crapia. How's that - the whole cultural identity in one six-letter word? You could use extensions of the name, such as Craponia, Crapitonia or even Crapitalovia ...well they do love inventing new words!

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Its the Americas, all of it, north & south, one big unbroken landmass and hence one big continent. Political distinctions apart the USA is not a continent any more than Europe is, its a political designation of a country within a continent, because short of continental drift and major volcanic action continents don't grow or shrink, and definitely not by political, military, sociological or cultural boundaries.

[@LiteralCrimeRave]

Continents are subjective. Is Afro Eurasia a continent?

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@LiteralCrimeRave How is a continent subjective? A Landmass is a continent, how is that subjective? Europe is a political creation and is the USA, Eurasia and Africa could be considered one continuous landmass, so why is India called a subcontinent and yet Africa is a continent? Its not subjective, its recognition by greater powers... Again political!

[@LiteralCrimeRave]

@@daveofyorkshire301 It's subjective. Is the island of Hawaii a continent? India is considered a subcontinent because it is it's own plate.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@LiteralCrimeRave Is any raise flat surface a table?

[@LiteralCrimeRave]

@@daveofyorkshire301 How is that relevant? Please share your secret definition of continent that invalidates all others.

[@davidgollop2807]

The "States" have the power and money......so we who do not live in the U.S.A call them what ever they want to be called. It's that simple!

[@chrismackett9044]

Under its constitution, Mexico is called the ‘Estados Unidos Mexicanos’. Maybe we should just start calling Mexico the ‘United States’.

[@felipe_randolfo]

Mexico has 3 oficial names: "United Mexican States", Mexican Republic" and "Mexico"

[@logankraft8711]

I've always said we can call ourselves Americans cuz were the only country with america in its name

[@ebantink4843]

South America+ ?

[@logankraft8711]

@@ebantink4843 thats a continent not a country

[@koushikvemuri3130]

But Brazillians, Mexicans, Chileans etc are also Americans. You call Chinese, Koreans etc as Asians. No one from the East or Europe are annoyed by people of The states calling themselves Americans. The people of Latin America are the only ones who have a problem with this. Call yourself whatever you want it's not like every country's name has a logic behind it.

[@ebantink4843]

@@logankraft8711 South America, North America and Canada are a continent and the US is part of it

[@logankraft8711]

@@ebantink4843 but unlike them we have it in our name

[@kolerick]

you aren't Americans (but if you refer to it like Chinise are Asians and Sudanese are Africans) you are Usians

[@404Dannyboy]

Pretty sure we get to decide what we call ourselves.

[@bostonblackie9503]

Calling yourself Americans is stupid. Everyone who lives in the Americas can call themselves Americans. Remember when Star Trek said there was to be a Native American in their new series. Those from the United States thought it was to be an indiginous person from their country. To bad he came from Middle America, Latin America, somewhere in the Americas but not the United States.

[@CaptainAmerica001]

Speaking about Star Trek, the Interplanetary Federal Republic is *named* The United Federation of Planets (UFP) & it's referred to as the *Federation* & *not* The Planets! America is a continent, not a country. Plus, an American is from the Continent of America!

[@jello9396]

Hail hail freedonia!

[@CliveBilby]

So with that logic the United Kingdom could change its name to "The United Countries of Europe", I like it, take that European Union!

[@alistairbolden6340]

The traitor states!

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[@gordonseales3950]

America got it's name from a Portuguese Navigator called Amegro Ves Spuchie

[@adrianhughes8143]

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