The Unites States of America and How it is Not The Name of Our Country.
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[QUOTE=Detective P;16846529]...Are you serious? I could get anyone of the teachers in my state fired as easily as cutting the grass.[/QUOTE]
well do you know how to get throgh all the paper work ? you do most of time they just send these shitty teachers to some big complex where they don't work with kids but then again that's was when Bush was running the USA
[QUOTE=GarrysDad;16846663]well do you know how to get throgh all the paper work ? you do most of time they just send these shitty teachers to some big complex where they don't work with kids but then again that's was when Bush was running the USA[/QUOTE]
Teachers get fired all the time- poor performance, sexual harassment, attempting to negotiate pay raises, budget cuts in education...
However, someone trying to fire a teacher because a parent thinks they are being too tough on their kid, gave their kid a bad grade, or trying to push a liberal/communist/socialist agenda isn't generally going to get them fired.
[QUOTE=phill977;16846487][B]OUR[/B] country?
I hate it when people don't think about other countries.[/QUOTE]
I was just referring to the people that live in the USA, including me. Sorry I offended you, bro.
[QUOTE=phill977;16846487][B]OUR[/B] country?
I hate it when people don't think about other countries.[/QUOTE]
It's everybodies country
America in the Middle.
Yes we can call ourselves America, we're the worlds only superpower and we've been doing it for decades, if Mexico or Canada gets pissy over it they can get the fuck off our continent.
No, you just got supercocks.
[QUOTE=RichardNixon;16846816]we're the worlds only superpower [/QUOTE]
???
[QUOTE=RichardNixon;16846816]Yes we can call ourselves America, we're the worlds only superpower and we've been doing it for decades, if Mexico or Canada gets pissy over it they can get the fuck off our continent.[/QUOTE]
Read that in Richard Nixon's voice. :v:
[QUOTE=RichardNixon;16846816]Yes we can call ourselves America, we're the worlds only superpower and we've been doing it for decades, if Mexico or Canada gets pissy over it they can get the fuck off our continent.[/QUOTE]
Nixon, you're back!
And you brought your bullshit with you. How nice.
Aussies are the greatest nuclear threat, so don't mess with us, muthfuckers, and see what happens.
Your teacher is the typical liberal scum that schlepped through college to get a worthless degree in poltical science.
Call your country Usa.
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[QUOTE=RichardNixon;16846816]Yes we can call ourselves America, we're the worlds only superpower and we've been doing it for decades, if Mexico or Canada gets pissy over it they can get the fuck off our continent.[/QUOTE]
Why don't you just send in your troops and strong arm us like you do with every other nation who does something you don't like, under the false pretense of spreading freedom?
[QUOTE=Wolf_Marine;16845833]Your teacher is an idiot.
We're in [u]America,[/u] and we are a ton of separate [u]states[/u] all [u]united[/u] under one federal government. We are the [u]United[/u] [u]States[/u] of [u]America[/u].
Now go and tell that to the teacher and come tell us what he says after that.[/QUOTE]
Couldn't have said it better.
Aren't we the Union?
The United States of America does not accept such idiocy, please hand over your passport so we can kick you out of the country.
We never named it? Fuck...
I propose Americastan, or Dongshire, something along those lines.
[QUOTE=Evil clock!!;16847496]We never named it? Fuck...
I propose Americastan, or Dongshire, something along those lines.[/QUOTE]
New Canada!
Didn't we become the "United States of America" after the colonies?
Your teacher is a big retard, I rate her [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/rating/box.png[/img]
Ass mer Erica.
That's all you do, America. You look at some girl's ass named Erica.
The guy's real name who owns that ass is Bubba. Erica was his ex-blow up doll.
[QUOTE=Victor Leferve;16845531]The name 'America' comes from the surname of a Welsh guy.[/QUOTE]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci]No, Italian guy[/url]
You know what my World History teacher said yesterday?
That "Noah's flood happened because we found the ark via satellite photos, check out these incredibly vague photos which just looks like a bunch of ground with rocks except these arrows are pointing inwards in an oval shape"
It's both a title and a description.
This thread is like the difference between [B]South[/B] Africa and [B]Southern[/B] Africa. South Africa adopted it as its official name of their country and therefore you must say [B]Southern[/B] Africa to point out the southern half of the African continent. The United States of America is the official name. Say North America if you want to distinguish between the continent and the country.
You history teacher is retarded, our title is the United States of America, it's what they officially call us in International Meetings, God Dammit.
I really hate when people call the USA "America".
America != USA.
America is not god's country.
So why would God himself focus on one country. Jeez. He ain't dumb.
[QUOTE=Billiam;16845285]Ya' don't see Mexicans and Canadians, and Brazilians, and Argentinians, and Panamanians, and Cubans, and all the other people in the Caribbean, North, and South America calling themselves Americans.[/QUOTE]
No duh when the people from the US took the name for themselves. Though what else are we to call them? united Statians?
[QUOTE=insane taco;16845108]Or so my World History teacher said. He pretty much explained that "The United States of America" is just a description of our country and not an actual title.
We cant simply name ourselves America because Canada and Mexico are also technically American since we all reside in North [b]America.[/b]
So what my teacher is saying is that we have yet to actually name our country.
Now I kinda understand both ways, really. I asked my mom this and she pretty much called my teacher a retard.
I'd like to hear your input on this. It's been something that's been bugging me all day.[/QUOTE]
Your teacher is a fucking idiot. We call ourselves Americans because we were the first independent nation in the Americas. Everyone else that lived here were still colonies, and thus refered to as their head nation. People from mexico we named Spanish, and were considered citizens of Spain. Since we no longer had Britian ruling us, we weren't considered British. We took our name from the land we were on, just like all the other countries in Europe did. (i.e., British are from the British Isles)
As for the "United States of America" being just a title, that is bullshit as well. In the Articles of Confederation, our first attempt at making a government for ourselves, there was a section that stated, "The Stile of this Confederacy shall be 'The United States of America.'" For those who can't understand English, that means, "We name ourselves USA".
I call the US the The Republic Union of North America. RUA!!!
The R.A.U.:911:
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