America Isn't Entirely American (Misleading Country Names)
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- as it turns out, a country name is never truly accurate.
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If you're Hungary, you need Togo and Czech the fridge for some Turkey, but if there's Greece on it, Oman there's Norway you can eat it.
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Are you Russian to the diner for a chocolate Malta?
Don't forget to bring your France if you're lonely
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Don't stick it up Djibouti.
Just don't..
therapist: american accent toycat isn't real, he can't hurt you
american accent toycat: nevAda
i was so surprised when he mentioned that because my family is from nevada and we get annoyed when people say it wrong lmao
@@dane1382 It's literally just the same pronunciation but without the trap-bath split
Nevada, like nev (never) a (ah) da (leanardo deviant art Vinci). Right?
He said it right...
Southerner :"Boy, Bless your heart."
Meanwhile at a restaurant in Texas
Person: I'll take a coke
Waiter: we don't have coke, is coke okay?
As someone from Atlanta, we don't call all sodas Coke, just Coca-Cola. We call all those types of drinks soda, unless referring to a specific one then we say the drink's actual name.
Meanwhile in New York: coke? You mean the soda?
@@Jay-qb9gi mr. FBI how would you know?🤔
We don’t talk like that but I see your point
Why do some people call soda pop?
“What would you like to drink today, sir?”
“I would like a coke”
“What kind of coke?”
“Just a normal coke”
“Our cokes are: Sprite, Coke, or Dr. Pepper”
“What?”
As someone from Atlanta, we don't call all sodas Coke, just Coca-Cola. We call all those types of drinks soda, unless referring to a specific one then we say the drink's actual name.
@@wayward4657 Grandparents still call soda coke in most of Georgia...
Nick Lounsbury yeah, from new jersey, and we just say soda. But i usually just say coke because that’s all i usually have. (if we’re at a restaurant and i don’t know if they have coke or pepsi, i ask for coke)
MotionWorld Films you do realise there basically the same drink, right?
MotionWorld Films Fun fact. The non branded term for the type of soft drink Coca-Cola is called cola. Coca-a-cola, Pepsi-cola, LA Ice Cola, Super-budget pop cola, etc
Now waiting for this title:
Toycat isn't entirely a toycat (Misleading Cat Names)
Toycat actually isnt a toy either
ToyCat is NAYAYYAYYAW.
No he is not, he is part late
"You can't just make up the name entirely."
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You're from Knowing Better,ain't ya?
Udahoe
@@bumface8350 medahoe
"Iceland is green and beautiful"
Zooms in on pile of rocks
Pesss its just early branding to sell land.
There was a glacier.
There is no Great Britain, just Scottish foreign territories
Haha!
"South Sudan is Sudan... But better"
No its not, its worse in every single possible way
And if thats a joke you are realy terrible at makeing them
evil I he is quoting the video smh
@@stephen9381 Do youtube commenters even know how to read quotes?
@@TheRenegade... clearly not
@@stephen9381 thank you
“You can’t make up a name entirely”
Idaho: am I a joke to you
Idaho is lucky the word the made up is a word in another language.
No your a Spud.
@@uwuowo7718 𝕚𝕕𝕒𝕙𝕠 = 𝕚 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕙𝕠𝕖
"Neither United, Nor states, Nor American"
From the quote: "Neither Holy, Nor Roman, Nor an Empire"
The Great States are fairly high up the "is it a state?" ranking of national divisions. Although, of course, several other national divisions are higher.
Hopi isn’t pronounced “Hoppy”, it’s pronounced “Hoe-pee”.
how do you even mispronounce that
@@FinlayHamm having a good knack for pronunciation is a much much rarer skill than you'd maybe think, but I agree
Hehehehe
@@FinlayHamm I'd have pronounced it has hoppy because its spelt hopi not hoepee
I pronounced it Hoe-pee the first time
The one continent model in South America goes way back, as originally “America” referred to Central and South America since the north wasn’t fully explored yet. Back in the late 18th and early 19th century they would call themselves American to indicate a cultural distinction with the Spanish in Europe. I remember reading in a journal from a British Sailor in 1820 Chile that people would call themselves American more often than Chilean. Same when he visited Peru around that time.
Should the UK be called the United Queendom when it's ruled by a female? 😂
United QueerDom and the northern AYEland.
Monarchidom?
When the Queen dies it would become the United kingdom again then....
@Daniel Crutcher no. It's a joke.
@@highground2665 Yes
A correction, Marshall Islands are not part of the USA, but they have the compact of free association along with Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia.
^
But associated states of New Zealand like Niue and Cook Islands for some reason are still considered part of New Zealand
Belarus means White Russia, but fun fact, normal Russians are white too!
Also: I don't think Western Sahara has the most western point of the Sahara
It looks pretty dang far west. I guess Dakar is a bit further West but judging from google map colouring (the most reliable source out there), it doesn't look Saharan.
That joke is terrible. Go back to the Kongo.
Belarus means white Rus, and I think Rus and Russia are complete different things. Also, there are regions like red Rus or black Rus somewhere in Ukraine, so it isn't probably connected to the skin colour.
Belarus means White Russia, and Russia's etymological root derives from the Rus Vikings, who's name is originally attributed to a place called Roslagen in Sweden
The use of white, black and red Ruthenia/Russ is believed to come from the Mongols, as they associated colours with the cardinal directions.
In the south, if someone handed you a sprite, then it’s a sprite, not a coke. You would say let’s go get a coke and then the server would ask what type, like that.
still weird
I'm from the South and that never happens. I've always heard drinks called by their actual name and called soda if talking about that type of drink
Nick Lounsbury I call it a soda but my dad calls soft drinks coke. If you go out into really rural parts of the south that’s mostly what it’s called
Nick Lounsbury - Same! I’m in southern Alabama and we just call it by it’s name (or soda)
Im from Florida and we call it Soda. If went we want a certain soda then we say the name of the soda.
Malin Head, the northernmost point in the Republic of Ireland is further north than the northernmost point of Northern Ireland.
The westernmost point in Virginia is further west than the westernmost point of West Virginia.
wot
Im from Fanad, near Malin
@@projpotat8965 I know but it's still some fun facts.
Buzz: Hmm yes the America here is made out of America
Toycat: Not quite
Ok
The alaskan village called Wales is called that because the native people eat whales
and have the leagual right o do so.
The United States are united as one country as it suggests in the name
ibx2cat: *Are you sure about that?*
yes but like any family we fight over things outsiders do not understand.
We clearly aren’t united lmao. Political parties for one.
&Galaxy Oasis
By that logic, no country on earth is united, especially the ones that have actually broken up into several smaller countries.
I'm pretty sure Marshall Islands are an independent country now 3:32
This channel is awesome, and as an American I find your videos on America especially cool. My favorite video you’ve done on this channel may have been your “All 50 states” vid, but I also think the videos about overseas possessions are some of your best content. This video is both! Shoutout to Kobean History as well of course, great job all around. This may be just a 2nd channel for you, but it’s been a huge inspiration behind both Wayback History and our new Apolitical World Map project!
Yes, the title, I love it.
did i just hear toycat claim the Marshall Islands for the us 3:32
In Spain we also divide the world differently and consider the whole Americas as one continent, from Canada to Argentina. It annoys the hell out of me when they call themselves "America"...
You are 100% correct.
Countries in América have easy names to understand, at least for me.
Countries in América are not named the Canada of América, the México of América, the Panama of América, the Colombia of América, the Belize of América, the Argentina of América, the Suriname of América, the Chile of América, the United States of América, wait. Hold on, that one doesn't work.
Why?
Because the United States of América (U.S.A.) is one of those countries.
The United States of América (U.S.A.) has a simple, basic, generic name which simply means STATES, that are UNITED, on the Continent OF AMÉRICA.
Not América of the United States!
It's what the Founding Fathers & authors of the U.S.A. meant, and still means.
I studied America as one continent and I'm from Spain! I also know this is studied in other parts of Europe bc my parents aren't Spanish, so there's that information there
Laura Briganti how would they be one continent and Africa Asia and Europe be separate continents? There is a geographic separation between them and a cultural one too.
@Andrea C. so are Africa and Asia the same continent then?
@Andrea C. and Canada exists as well
@Andrea C. I know and you said the us is the only one not like the others
América is not a country or nation. Therefore, 'American' isn't a nationality or citizenship.
An American is from the Continent of América!
The United States of América (U.S.A.) has a simple, basic, generic name which simply means STATES, that are UNITED, on the Continent OF AMÉRICA.
Not América of the United States!
It's what the Founding Fathers & authors of the U.S.A. meant, and still means.
I love how he hovers over Africa and then when he says the names were determined long ago immediatly zooms in on the UK
*Argentina had a gun to Toycat's head when he was talking about Great Britain's territories.*
The thing is continents are made up ideas anyway and islands being part of a continent is kinda subjective.
Love the vid your vids are always the best
Love your videos keep the great work up!
"I'm no geographist."
I feel there is a point in each video that ToyCat realizes he's gone off on a tangent
PLEASE do a video about indian reservations, they're actually really interesting and stay kind of obscure because a lot of people don't look into them. It would genuinely be really interesting
Sure, 'United" and "States" and "America" aren't really that accurate.
But what about "of"?
well its of America, which is like 99% true, (since 99% of it is in America)
Bingo! “Of” it’s also misleading, because it’s admitting that America is a continent, because OF means that is part OF it.
You are 100% correct.
Countries in América have easy names to understand, at least for me.
Countries in América are not named the Canada of América, the México of América, the Panama of América, the Colombia of América, the Belize of América, the Argentina of América, the Suriname of América, the Chile of América, the United States of América, wait. Hold on, that one doesn't work.
Why?
Because the United States of América (U.S.A.) is one of those countries.
The United States of América (U.S.A.) has a simple, basic, generic name which simply means STATES, that are UNITED, on the Continent OF AMÉRICA.
Not América of the United States!
It's what the Founding Fathers & authors of the U.S.A. meant, and still means.
Heres another one, Algeria. Comes from the Arabic "Al-Djazair" meaning 'The Islands', stemming from the now nonexistent 4 islands that originally sat adjacent from Algiers, off the Barbary coast.
5:52 I just call them fizzy drinks ( also how are they supposed to be soft)
“He’s too dangerous to be left alive!”
Which part are you referring to? Because where I come from ( South West England) people call them fizzy drinks
Hard drinks have alcohol. Soft drinks don't.
Technically soft drinks includes things like juice, milk and water etc. But most people use it to just mean carbonated drinks.
In America, "hard" and "soft" refer to alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages respectively.
Fr you did perfect job on this video!
America is one continent. Give me one reason why it wouldn’t be ?
Now, I say soda, but how does the word 'pop' for soda not make sense. The bubbles pop in your mouth right? Doesn't that make sense?
But its easier to say coke than pop
(1:20) Except that the international date line isn't any natural formation, and it isn't drawn based on political entities. It simply shows the border where the plus timezones (Russia, New Zealand) resets and becomes minus timezones (USA, Mexico). - It does not mark where there's a 24 hour gap, because it isn't consisntent. It only shows that if you start from the lowest value and go east, and the numbers increase, that line is where it will go down again.
Toycat should make a series of videos in which he points to random countries on a map and says "Fun fact, this piece of land is not Great Britian or Northern Ireland".
How did I not know you had another channel 😢
toycats 2nd chanell is better than the main one don't @ me
I agree. I discovered it before I discovered his actual one.
Ok...but I live in South Carolina, and I usually hear soft drinks being called soda.
I literally just say soft drink.
I’d assume most Americans call themselves that because it sounds better than saying I’m a U.S. Citizen
United Statean
United Kingdomer
United Emirater
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American
English
Arab (or something)
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YOU ARE FIRST CONGRATS. YOU ARE ACTUALLY FIRST CONGRATULATIONS
@@jsea1967 lol
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Navajo nation has a exclave in New Mexico
Toycat: Write that down, write that down!
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands aren't part of the UK, but they're owned by them. Even the Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey aren't part of the UK.
in washtenaw michigan we say soda all the time but on the map it says we say pop?
Take a drink every time he says America
I’m “Russian” Ain’t impressed
here in south america (brazil) we divide america even more. Creating central america, which includes the caribbean and everything from mexico to panama
The word American itself is misleading
Americans who are European
Aka *germans, british, irish, etc*
Or as in native Americans or Americans who have been there years before the Europeans.
This is why South America says that all parts of America aka South and North America are just American
Not in the people sense but in the geographic sense.
Most Americans aren't European. Some of my ancestors have been on the continent since 1736, I would say that is pretty American
Oh it’s mr.profound with the shadow the hedgehog pfp
How does this demographic argument lead to the conclusion that there's just America, not North and South America? In English, American is the demonym for the United States of America, noting their nationality and/or permanent residence. Most Americans don't consider themselves ethnically "American", hence the association with other groups (German, Native American, African-American, etc.) The demonym for the continents would be "North American" and "South American". Demographic association is merely the consequence of one's geographical and linguistic understanding (anglophones hold to the seven continent model).
and Europe is just Asian, even half of their land is in more in Asia.
Have you ever made a video about how many and what peoples and countries or part of countries that belongs to the various tectonic plates around the globe? I live on the North American tectonic plate, about 50 km from the European tectonic plate even though I geographically, politically and culturally definitely live in a capital city of an European country.
You day you don't get 'pop'. In Wales all soft drinks are refered to as pop. Just like we used to have milkmen who would deliver milk on their milk float we used to have the pop man who came round in his pop van. I believe parts of England use the term pop too. Probably parts that border Wales.
as a southerner, pretty much everything is called by the name of the most popular brand that produces it. for example:
soda? coke.
hand sanitizer? germ x.
tissues? kleenexes.
most of my country relatives call all cars trucks and stuff like that too.
As someone from Atlanta we don't do that here. We call every soda by their actual name. Coca-Cola? Coke. Sprite? Sprite. Dr. Pepper? Dr. Pepper. They are all sodas and only Coca-Cola is Coke. I think the stats are messed up purely because Coke is the most popular soda so people from other regions think we're talking about all soda when we just mean Coca-Cola.
Nick Lounsbury fair enough. i’m from alabama so i guess it’s a lil bit different
The map at 5:18 didn’t mean what he was saying it did. It shows the percentage of government owned land (in red) vs privately own land (in blue) broken down by each state. It doesn’t at all mean that that portion somehow doesn’t belong to the state.
The vikings named Iceland as such because they loved it and wanted to stay but wanted others not to attack or colonise of themselves so they named it something which sounded undesirable
Here you go:
Oceania is a geographic region, not a continent.
Guamanians and Northern Mariana Islands are US Commonwealths and are American citizens by birth. Marshall Islanders are in free association and are not US citizens or nationals.
Explorer James Cook named both the “Sandwich Islands” (present day Hawaii) and “South Sandwich Islands”
Not only is the United Kingdom not ruled by a King, it’s not de facto ruled by a Queen either. The UK practices the strange European custom of keeping a German family as a national pet.
You’re welcome.
nobody:
toycat: america isnt actually united because they call soft drinks different things
Haven’t seen the video yet, but I’m guessing the ping in the thumbnail is pointing to that one French island off of Canada?
So tired he forgot to say "don't care" after second channel...
Second channel? I didn't know there was a first...
He does Minecraft videos on his main channel.
"ibxtoycat"
I suppose another example is the "Kingdom of the Netherlands".. While it is in the Netherlands (or you can call it the Low Countries), it isn't the only country there.
There's also Belgium and Luxembourg, for example.
enjoyed lots. I really liked also right at the beginning with the military base map. have you got a video going into this?
We call it pop in the north because it gets cold enough in the winter for the can to break open if it's left outside and when it does it makes a *pop* noise. Kind of like minecraft dispensers
I live in southeast Texas and I have worked in about 17 nursing facilities, so I meet lots of Texans only on a daily basis. I've never heard of soft drinks being called "coke," but I've heard them called "soda water" a lot. It's very strange. When I first had a patient ask for a "soda water, " I honestly thought that they wanted me to mix soda and water together. I am from northeast Kansas and it's common to refer to them as "soda" or "soda pop" in my experience.
It always makes me dizzy when you move so hyperactively and keep changing the zoom. SMH
Fun fact: Belarus called Fehéroroszország in Hungarian which literally translates into White Russia.
In german it's called Weißrussland, which also means White Russia
We called it white russia (Vitryssland) in Sweden until just recently when the gov decided to start calling it Belarus instead.
White Russia is the translation in all Northern Germanic languages. (Icelandic: Hvíta-Rússland, Danich: Hviderusland, Norwegian: Hviterussland, ....)
That’s because that’s the name of the country. Belarus (or Byelorussia) means White Russia
In Finnish it is Valko-Venäjä, which also means white Russia
Did you see how devided Alaska was by soda pop and coke names of soda
6:47 Greenland is white, Iceland is a volcano and the Faroe Islands is nowhere near Egypt.
Al Murray.
Soemthing I noticed:
AMERICA
MEXICO
The rich and good people lives in America and his shy twin named Canada.
The other poor countries that speak Spanish is the Mexican continent, there is also Brazil, a place where they speak strange Spanish. Nice to meet you, that's all you need to know about geography according to the educational system.
Technically, I'm 1/4 Sorb (or Wendish as those who immigrated to Texas and their descendants call themselves - The Wends of Texas). The community originally remained close knit, so when my grandfather was born, the community was still marring within the community; though by that time the speaking of Sorbian/Wendish had long been replaced by German, which had also long been replaced by English, by then (the language spoken was influenced by the Lutheran Church and how the synod they belong to the Pastors initially preached in German before changing to English as English become more popular among the descendants of both the Germans and the Wends).
Can you please put a small count in the corner of the screen for every time you say "America" (or the word/subject that features that video - for future vids)
0:48 Love how people are taught that Notlrth and south America should just be America when they're connected by a narrow land bridge while Europe should remain separate from Asia when it's border with Asia is basically just a long arbitrary line that now should separate 2 continents.
I live in South America and I learned in school that there is one America that is divided in three parts: North, Central and South
The number of different videos where he says "Skye" and points at Lewis is hurting.
1:38 i wunder why it is called that im from wales in the uk
Australians are also taught that it's called Australia instead of oacinaninanania
I know I’m from Guam I’ve never been to Guam but a lot of my family members along time ago lived there
Austria's name in German (and Dutch and maybe other languages) means something like eastern realm or eastern empire, but it is to the south of Germany
I like your attitude.
We call it pop because the of the POP sound when you open a can or twist a bottle open quickly. Pop!
All those names for fizzy drinks, why can't they just call it ginger like normal people.
As An American, I Want To Point Out That Being American Isn't Really An Ethnicity, More An Idea, We've Only Been A Country For 244 Years And Is Considered The "Melting Pot" Of The World.
Anyone Can Be An American, You Just Have To Understand And Support The American Dream.
Fun Fact: After We Got Our Independence, We Still Had Something iN pLACE bEFORE oUR Modern Constitution Called "The Articles Of Confederation" Which Gave The Individual States Much More Power Than They Have Now. If We Kept That System, THe U.S. Would Have Worked Similarly To The Holy Roman Empire.
how many times did he say "America" and any of its variants
Ibx2cat intro is yes
First off the country is called *The United States of America* meaning each state is separate but united and this idea is talking place on the American continent.
You are 100% correct.
Countries in América have easy names to understand, at least for me.
Countries in América are not named the Canada of América, the México of América, the Panama of América, the Colombia of América, the Belize of América, the Argentina of América, the Suriname of América, the Chile of América, the United States of América, wait. Hold on, that one doesn't work.
Why?
Because the United States of América (U.S.A.) is one of those countries.
The United States of América (U.S.A.) has a simple, basic, generic name which simply means STATES, that are UNITED, on the Continent OF AMÉRICA.
Not América of the United States!
It's what the Founding Fathers & authors of the U.S.A. meant, and still means.
Is ibx2cat or "I be times two felis domesticus" accurate?
the virgin islands vs the chad landlocked republic
When looking at a globe or at a map whose projection imitates a globe, it's not hard to realize that Alaska in general is midway between the US or Canadian east coast areas (including New York, Boston, Washington DC, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax) and Japan/Korea. And the very westernmost Aleutian Islands that were occupied by the Japanese during World War II are closer to Japan/Korea than to the Alaskan Panhandle!
Furthermore, Hawaii is almost midway between the North American east coast and either Asia or Australia/New Zealand.
Going to either Alaska or Hawaii from the North American east coast is about the same time/distance as from the N. American east coast to Europe, albeit in the opposite direction.
Carbonated drinks are flavouring combined with soda water, hence 'soda'. Soda water also sounds like it's popping if you put your ear near it (the same reason we in the UK call them fizzy drinks) hence the term 'pop'. Don't know what the hell the people in the south are snorting though, probably coke.
The way he says Oceania kills me
I love the video. The U.S. should still be called America. That’s like saying that the EU can’t be called the EU because Turkey is part of the EU(not a member state) but 97% of Turkey is part of Asia. Just because a country isn’t fully in what it’s named doesn’t mean it should be renamed. I am not saying you said it should be renamed, Toycat. America is the United States that mostly exist in America(states). America doesn’t have to be just the continents/continent it can be the U.S. Just because America used to mean 1 or 2 continents it could also mean the Union of the United States. If we stick with that definition American means being part of the Union of the United States. The second definition is definitely true(besides some territories where you can’t get citizenship). I love the video Toycat but this is just my thoughts and opinions.
@Andrea C. I made that comment over 5 months ago. I disagree with it now.
I was complaining about the America name yesterday
Aight, i’mma correct you on your geography.
Australia is a country
Australia is a country within the continent of Australia
Oceania is a region
Yeah, a continent is a big large land mass. A group of disperate islands on different tectonic plates don't really constitute a continent. Though New Guinea and New Zealand could be argued to be islands of the continent that makes up Australia (alternatively called Australasia). Though New Zealand itself could also be argued as a continent as it's actually part of a rather large land mass that is submerged beneath the water called Zealandia. What is and isn't a continent is a pretty dang arbitrary thing (Europe and Asia are always split even though there's basically no geographical reason to do so, and if we're going culturally then there's really no reason the Middle East shouldn't be it's own continent too). A massive amount of water with some scattered islands in it generally isn't one though. Oceaina is still pretty useful for grouping that non continental part of the world together there as there's a significant amount of independent countries within that region.
False
The actual continents would best be described as Eurasia, India, Arabia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Australia, and New Zealand (I’m majoring in Geophysics in college, take my word for it). Anything else would be cultural regions. If we want to talk about cultural regions, it would be best to split the Americas into North and South at the US-México border, and Eurasia would be divided into Europe, the Middle East (including the Arabian Peninsula), India, and East Asia, with maybe even one more in Central Asia. Defining “continents” as cultural regions is a slippery slope to just naming countries and even smaller subdivisions, and the current 7 continent model (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica) doesn’t describe cultures OR geology in a good way.
What constitutes a continent varies from country to country. In Latin America, and I believe most of Europe, Oceania is a continent.
You should get a trampoline Andrew
(6:10) I'm confused. Who are "Coke"? You mean Coca-Cola? They don't even have "Coke" in their name.
Puerto Rico is not a territory, it's a colony. It's the 14th colony and, in my humble opinion, needs to become a state.
ey we didn't name ourselves that, the British did, and the French and Spanish colonists also called us that far before we were a country