Comments on: First, Liancourt Rocks, Now It’s the Yalu and Tumen Rivers

By: user-81

user-81 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:53:25 +0000

I think it’s arrogant of Korea to use its own name. “Korea” used to cover half of northeast Asia, but this little bitty country now hogging that name barely covers the entry way. We should call the place 현관.

Colombia, Bolivia, America… how many countries are named after a person?

By: JG

JG — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:31:00 +0000

…and how arrogant does a country have to be to reserve the name of the inhabitants of a whole continent for its own citizens?

Colombia?

By: cmm

cmm — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:14:04 +0000

Your logic is dead-on wrt to the Injuns, but we still want the moon, for there is no better place from which to look down upon the entire Earth.

Mars is next. A little know fact is that on the recent Mars landing, NASA dropped a package of blankets laced with Smallpox. You see, Martians, like the Injun savages, are redskinned too. And when the Martians come to the surface, well it’s so cold there, those little guys are gonna snatch those blankets up and take them back down to their hives.

Dunno bout the shirt… haven’t tracked one down yet. I reckon one could probably scare one up on the internet though.

By: NES

NES — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:10:13 +0000

(just teasing, Canadian friends ^^)

By: NES

NES — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:09:17 +0000

@49 cmm

Do you also refer to Uranus as Canada?

By: WangKon936

WangKon936 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:05:04 +0000

You can get the shirt here.

By: user-81

user-81 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:58:43 +0000

I heard America didn’t want the moon anymore after they arrived and found out the Indians weren’t already there.

Nice shirt, cmm. Where can I get one?

By: cmm

cmm — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:33:46 +0000

I like the T-shirt with the astronaut planting the American flag on the moon with the caption that reads, “Finders Keepers.” That’s why I’ve arrogantly referred to the moon as “America,” since 1969.

By: Inkevitch

Inkevitch — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:20:52 +0000

My great great great great great etc grand pappy claimed New Guinea as Queensland territory on behalf of the Commonwealth to stop the evil German expansion in the Pacific. This was something he was not legally allowed to do as the Premier of a colony.

But technically Papua New Guinea, West Papua, Papua were a collection of possibly 1000 seperate tribes and cultures and not a single country.

By: NES

NES — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:20:50 +0000

@45 User

I agree for the most part with all of your points. As I said, it all depends on how the question is qualified, and I knew the Kurdistan example was loose and is more a country divided between other countries (I said three, but it is four or five countries). Many Kurds would disagree that Kurdistan is not a country and that they are just merely a divided people.

You are right that Samoa and Timor are not perfect examples, mainly because the other parts of those “nations” are part of larger nations rather than separate countries in and of themselves.