Let's change the name of America to the United States of America and move it from the front of drop down lists to the end.
Many years ago an Australian show famous for comedic Vox Pop street interviews had a hilarious run on "Asking Americans to name a country that started with the letter U".
I mean, sure, but you've also got "United Mexican States" for Mexico and "Republic of China" for Taiwan or even "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" for the UK.
Nobody in their right mind calls any of them by their full names. The rules are more-or-less consistent, it's just pedantry to complain about "America."
And Americans who hate America and hope that starting a movement to change one of its names might take it down a notch.
Yes.
Let's change the name of America to the United States of America and move it from the front of drop down lists to the end.
Many years ago an Australian show famous for comedic Vox Pop street interviews had a hilarious run on "Asking Americans to name a country that started with the letter U".
I mean, sure, but you've also got "United Mexican States" for Mexico and "Republic of China" for Taiwan or even "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" for the UK.
Nobody in their right mind calls any of them by their full names. The rules are more-or-less consistent, it's just pedantry to complain about "America."
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That'd be from your PoV.
It's been in low level general use on forums and IRC by non US english and ESL speakers since pre-WWW Usenet in my experience.
What has changed is I've recently seen it and close variations crop up here on HN, a primarily US forum, more and more in the past few months.
That'd dovetail in with your observation, but it's not a new coinage nor is it exclusive to disgruntled US residents by any means.