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Anyone else feel general dislike toward members of your own ethnic group?
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<blockquote data-quote="weambulance" data-source="post: 1020731" data-attributes="member: 7174"><p>Sort of.</p><p></p><p>America derives from Americus, which is the Latin version of Amerigo. But there's no good Latin analog for Christopher, because Christopher has Greek origins (Christofóros). North and South Christo, maybe? That would work well enough with the Spanish version of Christopher Columbus, which is Cristóbal Colón.</p><p></p><p>I like Columbia instead because if you're going to refer to a Westerner by a single name, it's going to be the surname, even if the person is incredibly famous. Using Amerigo Vespucci's first name root doesn't even make sense in the context of Latin naming conventions, but it is what it is. I really doubt he was known as simply "Amerigo" at the time; maybe they just didn't like his last name.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="weambulance, post: 1020731, member: 7174"] Sort of. America derives from Americus, which is the Latin version of Amerigo. But there's no good Latin analog for Christopher, because Christopher has Greek origins (Christofóros). North and South Christo, maybe? That would work well enough with the Spanish version of Christopher Columbus, which is Cristóbal Colón. I like Columbia instead because if you're going to refer to a Westerner by a single name, it's going to be the surname, even if the person is incredibly famous. Using Amerigo Vespucci's first name root doesn't even make sense in the context of Latin naming conventions, but it is what it is. I really doubt he was known as simply "Amerigo" at the time; maybe they just didn't like his last name. [/QUOTE]
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