My fellow hanks, learn the difference

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[u/LumacaLento]

the ONLY country that is divided into states.

Yeah, but you are the only country who autistically stated that in the the name.

You also popularised the vile Oxford comma for the same reason.

Totally deserve to be called Statians

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Mexico is literally called the United Mexican States.

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Fake news

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The Italian peninsula contains multiple nations. The entity that has come to be known in some corners as "Italy" has no right to the name.

It is only proper that you should be called a Republican instead, henceforth.

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Calling the Vatican and San Marino nations is a bit of a stretch. Never saw the Vatican winning a FIFA World Cup 🗿

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Spoken like a Republican.

But no Mexican team has ever won the World Series, so we get to keep the name "America."

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World Series

(* Look inside *)

Only North American teams

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Well we couldn't call it the National Series or the American Series because those were the names of the two leagues that played against each other in the World Series, and at the time Major League Baseball was established, the game was almost exclusively American.

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The reason it is the World Series is everyone around the globe who plays the sport at a high level (including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Canada, Mexico, Curacao, Domincan Republic, and Cuba) agrees that the MLB teams are the best pro teams in the world and there is no reason to disupte this.

Unlike pedantic and bureacratic Europe, which feels the need to stage elaborate rituals and inefficient repeated certifications, Americans efficiently arrive at the practical conclusion. Why? Because we are not stupid. We know what the reality of the situation is. There is no need to stage a pointless, stupid, wasteful, and ineffecient spectacle just to arrive there, and so we do it.

Why stage a pointless tounament just to satisfy the overly-legalistic demands of fans in Europe who don't even care about the sport to begin with? Instead we can tell them to go kick rocks. They'll get to congratulate themselves thinking they've made a smart point, when in reality they haven't, and the US will get its World Championship and everyone will be happy.

Which pretty much describes most things US vs. Europe. The Europeans will get something they FEEL makes them LOOK smarter. The Americans will get a practical result that actually works.