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Forums - Politics Discussion - The audacity! Obama changes the name of Mt. Mckinley to Mt. Denali! Past is the past people!

Nymeria on 01 September 2015

When I visited Alaska and Denali everyone there already called it Denali. I had no idea it had another name until this came up.



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WolfpackN64 on 01 September 2015
KLAMarine said:
WolfpackN64 said:

Now they just need to get rid of Mt. Rushmore.

Why?

It was built on Lakota ground without their permission.



Acevil on 01 September 2015
Nymeria said:
When I visited Alaska and Denali everyone there already called it Denali. I had no idea it had another name until this came up.


Honestly the other name was only used on maps and by select few in Ohio (As in people not from Alaska). People are really blowing this up, because 1) It is Obama, if this was anyone else it would be swept under the rug. 2) Americans ignore other important issues, and treat small ones as super important. 



 

Lawlight on 01 September 2015

He should also rename The United States of America.



kljesta64 on 01 September 2015

thats racist.



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Normchacho on 01 September 2015
Lawlight said:
He should also rename The United States of America.


Not sure if you're being sarcastic to make fun of how silly this is...but god I hope so.



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Acevil on 01 September 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
Acevil said:
Nymeria said:
When I visited Alaska and Denali everyone there already called it Denali. I had no idea it had another name until this came up.


Honestly the other name was only used on maps and by select few in Ohio (As in people not from Alaska). People are really blowing this up, because 1) It is Obama, if this was anyone else it would be swept under the rug. 2) Americans ignore other important issues, and treat small ones as super important. 

Unfortunately that's not exclusive to Americans


Oh it isn't but I think with America has something extra in the bias, and that is Network 24 Hour News Stations. Basically you have the public having no clue that things like infrustructure decay exist compared to the latest pet the Kardeshians have. 



 

Hedra42 on 01 September 2015
KLAMarine said:
WolfpackN64 said:

Now they just need to get rid of Mt. Rushmore.

Why?

 

Oddly enough, this documentary suggests that if humans suddenly and mysteriously died out right now, after 10,000 years, Mt Rushmore would be the only visible clue on Earth that we even existed. View the video from about 1:20:45.

Back on topic, I must admit I'd never heard of Mt. Mckinley until now; Denali is a much better name IMO.

As far as confusion over renaming things is concerned, there's no worry there. Places, cities, entire countries get renamed, and people just get used to the new name.



Nymeria on 01 September 2015
Hedra42 said:

As far as confusion over renaming things is concerned, there's no worry there. Places, cities, entire countries get renamed, and people just get used to the new name.

 

Istanbul was Constantinople

Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople

Been a long time gone, Constantinople

Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

 

Even old New York Was once New Amsterdam

Why they changed it I can't say

People just liked it better that way



Teeqoz on 01 September 2015
RolStoppable said:
ArchangelMadzz said:

And if you did a survey on how many americans could name the largest moutain in north america how would the percentage be? 1%? 0.1%? I'm a pretty knowledgable guy but I wouldn't have been able to name it.

This is the country where 20% of people can't point to America on a freaking map. 

You're flipping out over literally nothing.

Actually, spurge has a point. It being the largest mountain of North America means that people around the world know of it. That's the kind of superficial stuff that comes up even in basic geography classes: Largest mountains, longest rivers etc. Mount McKinley is like Mont Blanc and Mount Everest.

Admittedly, you have a point too. The United States of America are a country where 20% of the population's answer to the question to name a country that starts with the letter U would be Yugoslavia.


Presuming even 20% of the American population has ever heard of Yugoslavia. Assuming stuff like that, now that is a slippery slope...