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I find it one of those things that I just shake my head at the absurdity of it all. Ironically, at one point it was called the Gulf Of Florida. I think Claudia Sheinbaum was right when she said twenty years from now, we'll still be calling it the Gulf of Mexico.

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yes, I believe Sheinbaum was correct. "Freedom fries" comes to mind.

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Also let us not forget good old Amerigo Vespucci who is one of the great colonizing leaders. This whole Americas thing is lost on the numbskull modern colonizers of UStatia.

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Yeah, that's something that I didn't mention in this piece but was also on my mind. Also the simple fact that as far as the rest of the Americas are concerned, "America" is not a synonym for the US. Trump was obviously acting from a place of American exceptionalism in his renaming scheme, but Mexico is actually part of America as well.

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