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In reply to the discussion: Trump: AP White House access restricted until they use "Gulf of America" [View all]tornado34jh
(1,371 posts)The reality is, most of the media has been bought. How many news outlets can you say aren't bought by billionaires?
Also, the AP is right, it has always been the Gulf of Mexico. It's been that way even before the US was even a sovereign state. The name quite literally means "Gulf of the Mexica people". This of course referred to the Aztec people when Spanish explorers arrived in Mexico. So the US doesn't own the original name because it didn't exist at the time it was named. Also, America originally meant what is now South America. Later on, it went on to include North America, and hence the name of the Americas (i.e. North and South America). That occurred in 1538 when Geraldus Mercator named it. All this was before the US was even an independent country. Also, the idiots don't understand that by that logic, Italy then would have a claim that the US should be part of Italy since it was named after Amerigo Vespucci.
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