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Do YOU own America? Is AMERICA under YOUR Name? Did YOU Name America?
https://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/surgery/america.html
AMERICA, we learn as schoolchildren, was named in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, for his discovery of the mainland of the New World. We tend not to question this lesson about the naming of America. By the time we are adults it lingers vaguely in most of us, along with images of wave-tossed caravels and forests peopled with naked cannibals. Not surprisingly, the notion that America was named for Vespucci has long been universally accepted, so much so that a lineal descendant, America Vespucci, came to New Orleans in 1839 and asked for a land grant "in recognition of her name and parentage." Since the late 19th century, however, conflicting ideas about the truth of the derivation have been set forth with profound cultural and political implications. To question the origin of America's name is to question the nature of not only our history lessons but our very identity as Americans.
Traditional history lessons about the discovery of America also raise questions about the meaning of discovery itself. It is now universally recognized that neither Vespucci nor Columbus "discovered" America. They were of course preceded by the pre-historic Asian forebears of Native Americans, who migrated across some ice-bridge in the Bering Straits or over the stepping stones of the Aleutian Islands. A black African discovery of America, it has been argued, took place around 3,000 years ago, and influenced the development of Mayan, Aztec, and Inca civilizations. The records of Scandinavian expeditions to America are found in sagas — their historic cores encrusted with additions made by every storyteller who had ever repeated them. The Icelandic Saga of Eric the Red, the settler of Greenland, which tells how Eric's son Leif came to Vinland, was first written down in the second half of the 13th century, 250 years after Leif found a western land full of "wheatfields and vines"; from this history emerged a fanciful theory in 1930 that the origin of "America" is Scandinavian: Amt meaning "district" plus Eric, to form Amteric, or the Land of (Leif) Eric.
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Now when then President Obama was elected, a certain group of individuals said "they are moving to Canada since Obama was elected"
https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/low_concept/2008/10/the_conservatives_canada.html
Conservatives have no Canada. Which is to say, they have no mythical land of ideological soul mates to which they can flee to nurse their wounds and commiserate over lost elections and flunked initiatives. Part of the reason for this may be temperamental: Even staring into the maw of an Obama-friendly electoral map, Republicans' first instinct is not to threaten expatriation. (The McCain-Palin slogan, after all, is "country first.") They have no backup plan for when the country they live in becomes politically unrecognizable.'
Did we say "AMERICA LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT. You folks did. So what gives you the right to tell us that?
Once again Americans are threatening to move to Canada. This time, however, it’s if real estate mogul Donald Trump becomes president.
Many south of the border took to social media following the New Hampshire primary to voice their threats of packing up and making a run for the Great White North if Trump becomes president.
It appears the idle threats were made just after the republican presidential candidate was declared winner of Tuesday’s primary
So the liberals aren't allowed to say it, but the neocons can..
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This was here before your fathers, and grand fathers for some. They came here to seek "The American DREAM"
This place was the "entry" spot for the Italian, Irish, German people.
And this is the Lady who welcomes you to this land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Lazarus
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
This, is what lead the immigrants to search for a better life in America.
While on the other side, flash forward to today...
The WALL which already was in place under GEORGE BUSH Jr. (Sorry TrumpET sheeple, the wall is there)
This is what illegal Mexicans use to cross to come to this land.
They come here. To build the American Dream which is depicted on television, books, and magazines. They want the SAME OPPORTUNITY THEY CAME HERE FOR.. But following other means of achieving it.
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