• ☭CommieWolf☆
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        10 months ago

        British Colombia

        I’m imagining a world where the Spanish Colonized Canada first lol. Colombia is the Latin American country, “Columbia” is what every Anglo thing that uses his name is written.

          • 小莱卡
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            10 months ago

            Yea, its a very common thought unfortunately. I myself used to think that the spanish that conquered us mustve been lazy in comparison to the americans. Then you learn that the North american settlers just murdered everyone and brought slaves.

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          fwiw: they started colonizing nootka sound in british columbia, but abandoned it the 1790’s as part of territorial concessions to the british empire

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          Considering where it gets the name from, Culombia is how it really should be written.