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Hey, give them some credit, they have some diversity - there's place in europe, new place in europe, mispronounced place in europe, british ruler, catholic saint in spanish, american president, explorer related to america, and of course native american place/tribe, and random native american word

In the west coast we typically just used the name of the native tribe we killed in order to take the land.

It was Europeans who named those places.

And at some places they even reassign them new genders: The coat of arms of Berne Switzerland has a bear with a red penis. The US town: New Berne has a bear without a penis as a coat of arms. This means during the sea transport, Berne's bear outed themselves as Transgender and changed their sex to a lady-bear. (At least in my head cannon)

Sure but calling them Americans is likely, mostly, sorta true but also ignores an important fact... They were Europeans (or near descendants of) calling the places that. Often a place was named that place because it reminded them of home / to honor their parents home.

Some other notable examples: New Zealand

São Carlos, Brazil

Munich, Saskatchewan

Liverpool, New South Wales

Nueva York, Colombia

Meanwhile, Alexander the Great: You'll be me lol

"Americans" as in white Europeans?

A new place of europe.

There's a lot of places in America that are named after native American tribes. I guess it's the least our predecessors could do considering how badly they fucked over and slaughtered the natives.

When you get to the south west it becomes a place in Mexico which is a place in Spain or straight up just named after a Spanish conquistador.

"Truth and Consequences, NM"

"Dinosaur, CO"

"City of Industry, CA"

"Why Not?, NC"

Memphis, Tennessee has entered the chat, y'all.

In Québec they were a bit more diverse and also named lots of places after saints.

As much as Europeans don't like it, Americans are your children.

There are also a lot of places that kept the original native names. Not as numerous as the "New [European place]" ones, but enough that you notice.

First read this as “naming new borns” and I was thinking of names like Paris or London, and all of the comments kind of made sense but were still slightly off. It was a fun, confusing time for me, until I scrolled up and re-read OP. Thanks for listening to my story.

But you forgot, we also have to mispronounce it then get mad if you don't mispronounce it the right way.

-someone that was born in New berlin, not "new berLIN", But "new BURlin".

We also have a few original names, like bucksnort, horsethief basin and truth or consequences

Hebron, Lebanon, and Bozrah CT have entered the chat.

Jamaica, VT has entered the chat

and the original European names are also pretty functional:

I believe Amsterdam is just "River Dam"

And York is just "Yew", presumably named after trees that grew there. (Eburacon -> Eboracum -> Eoforwic -> Jórvík -> York)

But New York in the United States isn't even directly named after the English city of York, but rather a person (James Stuart) who was the Duke of York when England took control of the territory from the Dutch.

Upstate NY I went to Rome, Alexandria, Mexico, Florence, Norway, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Denmark, Coppenhagen, etc

EDIT: don't forget Swastika, NY

Just add new to the name

Consequently people from New England are the only ones who know how half the current English place names are pronounced.

And yet we don't have a Shitterton

There were no Americans when many of those places were named...

Hey hey, we did call it "New". Well, sometimes anyway. I definitely lived in town just called York.

More evidence that Egypt is European.

With a mangled pronunciation if the place is French!

There is a small village in Ohio named Buena Vista.

The locals pronounce it in a way that rhymes with Loona Fista

insert flex tape meme slapping "New" onto the European name