US calls itself Columbia. What does Colombia call itself.

But I am not a Yankee ... that too me is like why my sister-in-law's mother (who is of Panamanian descent) dislikes my brother making mexican jokes (he can be rather tactless but she still loves him)
Oh, I understand that. But it doesn't stop anyone outside the States calling yankees to everyone born there. Sort of a nickname, or how we still refer to the British people as English.
 
Oh, I understand that. But it doesn't stop anyone outside the States calling yankees to everyone born there. Sort of a nickname, or how we still refer to the British people as English.

I don't know for sure if that nickname is the more widely used to refer to the inhabitants of the U.S.A. in the Spanish-speaking war. It's very common in Argentina, but I think Mexico prefers the term "gringo", and that Spain has it's own name for them (which I am now unable to rembember).
 

Skokie

Banned
But I am not a Yankee ... that too me is like why my sister-in-law's mother (who is of Panamanian descent) dislikes my brother making mexican jokes (he can be rather tactless but she still loves him)

To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

--E. B. White

:D
 

wormyguy

Banned
To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.

--E. B. White

:D
The funny thing is that he was actually right . . .
 
The Republic of El Dorado would be a good name.

Some Spaniards spent so much time searching in the dense jungles for the famous El Dorado the city of gold which did not exist. Supposedly, some say the story started with the Muisca Natives of Colombia in order to get the Spaniards off there backs. Funny thing is why spend decades looking for a City of Gold when you had the richess of all of Colombia. Colombia is a very rich nation and strategically located.

Edit: Found some info. on El Dorado.
El Dorado (" Eldorado ") (Spanish for "the golden one") is a legend that began with the story of a South American tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and would dive into a lake of pure mountain water.

The legend originates in present-day Colombia, where conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada first found the Muiscas, a nation in the modern day Cundinamarca and Boyacá highlands of Colombia, in 1537. The story of Muisca rituals was brought to Quito by Sebastián de Belalcázar's men; mixed with other rumors, there arose the legend of 'El Dorado' (meaning the Golden Man rather than a place - 'el indio dorado', the golden Indian or 'El Rey Dorado', The Golden King).

Imagined as a place, El Dorado became a kingdom, an empire, the city of this legendary golden king. Deluded by a similar legend, Francisco Orellana and Gonzalo Pizarro would depart from Quito in 1541 in a famous and disastrous expedition towards the Amazon Basin; as a result of this, however, Orellana became the first person known to navigate the Amazon River all the way to its mouth.
 
...And British Columbia? It would be really confusing if in this TL it goes to the US (Columbia)... Columbian Columbia?:D
 
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