Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America'

Re:Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America' by bee_rider on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:39PM (#43007946)

I mean this is all dumb chest thumping. But, doesn’t it make us look smaller to name the gulf after us?

When it was the Gulf of Mexico, it was named from our point of view. It was the gulf, among our many gulfs, that we share with Mexico. Now, by the same logic it is named from their point of view.

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Re:Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America' by sparrish on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:25PM (#43008952)

It's not named after 'us'.

All those in America (South, North, Central) are called Americans.

I spent several years in Paraguay where I met a lot of South Americans.

Mexicans are North Americans and the 'Gulf of America' is more inclusive considering 1/2 of the land mass touching it belongs to the US.

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Re:Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America' by danorama on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:26PM (#43008962)

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that "inclusion" wasn't Trump's intent here.

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Re:Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America' by gritspartan on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:33AM (#43009671)

Except, no part of Central nor South America touches the Gulf of Mexico. The only three countries which coasts on the Gulf are the US, Mexico, and Cuba. All of these are in North America, and I'm pretty the latter two are not going to go along with the idea.

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Re:Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America' by dingaling on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @05:38AM (#43011226)

> it was named from our point of view.

Actually it was named from the perspective of Spanish explorers. Originally Gulf of New Spain but by 1569 had become Gulf of Mexico.

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