Why are many US places named after other places' name?
The US has no culture so we must steal it from other countries.
>>51599923
because people who founded the towns usually came from those places or they adopt biblical names.
>>51599923
Pretty much every town over here has a namesake in America, mine included
>>51601387
Same for Spain. They have tons of towns and cities with spanish origins.
>>51599923
The U.S is a relatively new culture and therefore must take from other cultures for its distinctiveness.
>>51599923
lack of originality.
Some times it works out, carthage has a roman recreation every so often. It was pretty cool
>>51601387
Do British people ever go to, say, the signpost for Washington in Lincolnshire and take pictures of themselves making funny faces?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem,_New_York
Oy Vey
>>51599923
People tended to name new places after places they were from.
So you have not only a lot of old world place names, but also tons of towns named after other american cities. Someone from, say Springfield, would name a new town they found the same thing.
But there are also cases of places given trendy names. When ancient egypt was big you had places like Cairo Illinois (pronounced like kahrow though)
It's a common thing in the New World, we also do that (besides the cities we name after saints and important people).
>>51599923
Theres a lot of Brightons in the USA
>be me, yesterday
>read the news
>Headline:"Shooting in San Bernardino, 20 killed"
>fuckitshappening.jpg
>wtf ISIS is here in Switzerland
>open article
>"San Bernardino, CA"
THANKS OBAMA
>>51605051
Most of California was named by the Mexicans.
>>51601578
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron,_New_York
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine,_Illinois
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine,_Texas
tell these balestinians to move back to america
>>51599923
>Manchester, New Hampshire
People named towns after the places they came from
>>51601418
Can confirm, we have our city name in honour of a town called monterrei in Spain
lol its just a prank
>>51605353
Or from the American town they migrated from. Lots of the same towns from some original town in New England.
>>51605287
>Manchester, MA
>Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
>>51599923
Non-native habitation of USA is very recent, and so everything is loanwords from the old country - which is everywhere, all at once.
Places closer to Mexico more often have Spanish names. "Los Angeles, San Francisco, Del Rio" are literally Spanish phrases.
Probably the most "original" names in America are the Native (Indian) names. Some of our states and rivers are named this way.
>>51600025
>>51601506
>lack of originality.
So our towns should just have made-up names like black people?
Stick with what works, I say.
>>51599923
I feel you senpai.
There are more btw.
>>51599923
What the fuck man??????
Just when I thought Americans couldn't be more fucking retarded...
>>51610305
You do realize that they were probably founded by german immigrants from Hamburg, right?
>>51611211
Then good fucking riddance
>>51610305
This is the reason why we always address every city as "Hamburg, Germany" or "London, England." I've heard some folks from outside the US go, "What other 'Hamburg' or 'London' is there?" to which an American can reply, "Plenty."
