POLITICS: Should we call it Lake America or Lake Ontario?
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Washington, 13 Sep (EFE).- The tendency of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to re-baptize natural accidents to highlight the dominance of his country, among them the recent change from Lake Ontario border to Lake America, evokes the way in which the nation has claimed as its own the name of an entire [...] The entry Lake America or Gulf of America, reflections of how the U.S. claimed the name of a continent was first published i…
POLITICS: Should we call it Lake America or Lake Ontario?
What’s in a name? These days quite a lot, it seems. Since President Trump issued his Executive Order declaring that the body of water conventionally known as Lake Ontario would henceforth be named “Lake America,” we’ve seen surprisingly impassioned demonstrations of both support and opposition — and not just from Canadians. These responses were interesting on two counts. First, because some of the same people who had mocked or decried the renami…
By presidential decree, Donald J. Trump renamed Lake Ontario, the smallest of the five Great Horse Lakes (except Michigan) between Canada and the United States, "Lake Ontario to "Lake of America": Donald Trump's coup de force appeared first on Current Values.
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