Posted on 06/18/2020 4:10:34 PM PDT by rxsid
Oh, and colonization?<
Same thing.
No one would care. Now, force the name change of the NY Yankees and see what happens.
Rat Town
“Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can’t say
People just liked it better that way”
The Dutch held most of the coastal areas of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut and Delaware (known as New Netherland) in the early colonial period.
Being more intent on trade rather than colonisation of land area they kept their posts small and coastal. The town of New Amsterdam was the biggest on the north American continent because of the size of the bay.
The English took New Amsterdam in an invasion in 1664 led by the Duke of York at the request of King Charles II.
The Dutch retook New Amsterdam in the Third Dutch-Anglo war in 1673 but gave it up by treaty in 1674. The Dutch thought keeping Suriname was a better deal. Boy were they wrong!
Anyway, the English renamed New Amsterdam to New York for the Duke of York, the leader of the invasion and new owner of the conquered territory.
It doesn’t stop there. The Americas were named after Amerigo Vespuci. Amerigo enslaved the indigenous people and sold them. We are going to have to tear down and rename TWO continents!
Our country will go from USA to USBLM.
New LaQuishia
They should “decolonize” their bank accounts.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks rxsid. It's satire, but hey...
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