• nepenthes@lemmy.world
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    4 个月前

    Because “American” is not their word for themselves. It is the Latinized last name of the Italian explorer (Amerigo Vespucci) who explored the continents.

    It would be offensively ironic to name the original dwellers of this land mass after the guy, it would be assimilation.