←back to thread

First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

(www.cnn.com)
606 points saikatsg | 3 comments | 08 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.008s | source
Show context
Boogie_Man ◴[08 May 25 17:32 UTC] No.43928794[source]▶
The prevailing wisdom has been proven wrong on this occasion. He is very much a continuation of Francis's school of thought in spite of the "fat Pope thin Pope" wisdom, and he is an American who has been elected Pope, which was almost unthinkable because of America's economic, political, and mass media domination of the western world. Very unexpected
replies(4): >>43929161 #>>43929218 #>>43929330 #>>43931556 #
jampekka[dead post] ◴[08 May 25 18:10 UTC] No.43929330[source]▶
[flagged]
ebiester ◴[08 May 25 18:38 UTC] No.43929702[source]▶
Okay, yes, we get it. But the United States as a name even is not unique to western hemisphere countries - the name of Mexico is "Estados Unidos Mexicanos" - or United Mexican States.

We were the first country from the to be recognized by the Western Europeans, and the people at the time didn't anticipate the current situation, so forgive us for having a name in English that is a bit ambiguous, but how many people complain that there's no common name for Europe and Africa combined? Why is everyone so interested in lumping two continents together whose commonality stops with being the result of European colonialism and the consensus of a few mapmakers?

replies(3): >>43929990 #>>43930330 #>>43931012 #
1. wvbdmp ◴[08 May 25 18:59 UTC] No.43929990{3}[source]▶
> the name of Mexico is "Estados Unidos Mexicanos" - or United Mexican States

TIL. That’s funny because afaik Mexicans refer to the USA as “estados unidos”.

replies(2): >>43930324 #>>43933696 #
2. quesera ◴[08 May 25 19:27 UTC] No.43930324[source]▶
Also interestingly "The USA" and "The US" (en_US) both translate to "Los EE. UU." (es_MX, es_ES).

Not to be confused with "The EU" (en_US) which is "La UE" (es_ES).

3. TMWNN ◴[09 May 25 04:02 UTC] No.43933696[source]▶
>TIL. That’s funny because afaik Mexicans refer to the USA as “estados unidos”.

Just as bad is that norteamericanos is the popular term for Americans (in the American sense), despite the existence of Canada and Mexico itself on the continent.