Re:Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'
by stahtops on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:07PM
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"People hate it" because the motivation for it is xenophobia
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Re:Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'
by Thuggery on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @10:28AM
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I don't care about accusations of xenophobia. I don't like it because I don't like pointless historical revisionism. It's been called Gulf of Mexico since the 17th century, before there was a USA.
And I don't like the stink of arbitrary dictators renaming things for ego or propaganda reasons. This is the sort of thing North Korea or Turkmenbashi would do, and I think that's pathetic for America.