American is such a mouthful
The word American bugs me.
How pompous and egotistical of these morons to take a word that effectively encompasses one entire continent with more than 40 different countries and unilaterally redefine it to mean one country. Now, understandably this was meant to happen. In the U.S students don’t need to bother with silly empty knowledge like geography. Clearly, “business” courses, and by that I mean “all-encompassing bullshit talk for lazy people,” are more in jive with what we do here. Which is regress. To the desinformation age.Â
What’s worse is that the people who should be informing us correctly, like the press and the stupid macaque in charge, actually perpetuate the myth that we are the only Americans living in the Americas.
Well is not like they have a choice. That’s what happens when you don’t sit down and put some effort into coming up with a unique misnomer for your land, like Argentina or Costa Rica. Instead they called it the United States of America which is the same as calling it Name I Just Pinched out of My Uncreative Ass. So now what? What are we now: the unitarians, of the united stationers, or the stationeers? Idiots. Should’ve called it California from the get go. At least that one is sexy.
Anyway, that still leaves a big mess to contend with. Technically the Americas is divided in three portions: North, Central and South America, and let’s not forget the Caribbean (which tends to be dumped with the people from Central). In North America there are two countries, not one. Either we let the Canadians address themselves as Americans too (puzzling as it may seem) or we need to start referring to this as Bottom Half-Ass America of the North.