>Europe is named after a Semitic princess
>Africa is derived from Latin
>Asia was named by Greeks
>Some German dude named America after some Italian dude
>Australia and Antarctica = Colonial names
Ummm... why did FOREIGNERS define every continent on earth? Why not ONE indigenous name? Were these places all empty or something??? Every time we use these names we are giving legitimacy to colonization, otherization, Occidentalism/Orientalism etc.
>>3393611
>Roma
>ooga booga
>ching chong land
>hamafamadamakamamawame
>*SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWK*
>>3393611
>Napoleon
Italian
>Queen Victoria
German
>Adolf Hitler
Austrian
>Stalin
Georgian
>Saladin
Kurdish
>Khomeini
Azeri
It's like there's a pattern here
>>3393611
Also
>Abrahamic religions
Brown semitic religion's loved mainly by Europe and of course the rest of MENA.
>Buddhism
Loved by Mongoloids despite being made by possibly some crypto pajeet
>Hinduism
Only real 'white' religion left who's followers aren't.
>>3393643
>Victoria wasn't British
The prince consort of England had many fine soldiers of the kings German legion that served in the British army
>>3393643
>Stalin
>Georgian
Erdogan is Georgian too wtf. How do they keep getting away with it.
>>3393611
Not like anybody named those areas, they just cared about their countries.
>>3393643
Victoria was shit
Britain's greatest hero is Richard Lionheart
>>3393611
>orientalism
>bad
what did he mean by this?
Also
>etymology
>having moral implications
pick one famalam
Coincidentally, languages that aren't English call continents by different names.
Funny how that works.
>>3393656
>Erdoğan was born in the Kasımpaşa neighborhood of Istanbul to which his family had moved from Rize Province. Erdoğan allegedly said in 2003, "I'm a Georgian, my family is a Georgian family which migrated from Batumi to Rize."[23][24] However, in a 2014 televised interview on the NTV news network, he said, "You wouldn't believe the things they have said about me. They have said I am Georgian... forgive me for saying this... even much uglier things, they have even called me an Armenian, but I am Turkish."[25][26] In an account based on registry records, his genealogy was tracked to an ethnic Turkish family.[27]
Hmm
>Discover new continent
>ask the locals what it's called
>"i dunno, usually we call it the world, or here, or land, what is a continent btw?"
> aww shit! You're an explorer and the best part of the job (after pagan orgies, and mining rights) is naming things!
You have to be an arch-reactionary for the Aegean islands to be semitic and the middle east asian
>>3393611
Maybe its because people for the longest time considered themselves and everyone around them to be so different that any kind of common name would have seen absurd.Italians and Gauls even remotely being in the same category, no just no'. 'Oh, most of those people are from africa? lets just call them all africans'.
>>3393663
So a Frenchman
>>3393643
Austrians are German.
>>3394137
this
>what is this country called?
>oh, we call it "the village"
>great
>>3393611
Well, here is a brief history of the cradle of civilization where natives had the strongest initial technological advantage with which to resist foreigners trying to impose silly names on their lands.
Neolithic Period (7000-3500BC)
Uruk Period (3500-3100BC)
Proto-literate Period (3100-2800BC)
Early Dynastic Period (2800-2300BC)
Akkadian Empire (2300-2200BC)
Neo-Sumerian (2100-2000BC)
Amorite Interperiod (2000-1800BC)
Babylonian Empire (1800-1600BC)
Kassite Babylonia (1600-1110BC)
Elamite Period & Isin Dynasty (1100BC-1000BC)
Period of Chaos (1000BC-900BC)
Neo-Assyrian Empire (900-600BC)
Neo-Babylonian Empire (600-550BC)
Achaemenid Empire & Persian Ascendency (550BC-330BC)
Macedonian Empire & Diadochi (310-60BC)
Parthian and Sassanid Empire (60BC- 651AD)
Muslim conquests, Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates (632-750)
Abbasid Caliphate (750-1258, civil war and decline beginning in 811)
-Seljuk Turks (1055-1156)
-Khwarazmid Persia (1156-1218)
Ayyubid Mesopotamia(1156-1260)
Mongol conquest, Ilkhanate and successors (1218-1401)
Timurid conquest, Timurids, successors and Black/White sheep Turkomen (1370-1508)
Safavids (1501-1736)
Ottoman Mesopotamia (1533–1918)
-Mamluk Iraq (1704–1831)
Nader Shah and Zand era (1736-1794)
Qajar dynasty (1789–1925)
British rule/Mandate in Iraq (1917-1932)
Pahlavi dynasty of Iran (1925-1979)
Kingdom of Iraq (1932–1958)
Iraqi Republic (1958–68)
Ba'athist Iraq (1968–2003)
Iranian revolution (1979)
Iraqi occupation (2003-2011)
Republic of Iraq (2011)
Why would Baghdad still be called Akkad after all this?