It would be amazing if they had arrived to the Americas and ask some natives about how they call a place and they said “this? This is New Amsterdam. We don’t know what’s Amsterdam but this is a newer version of it”

My ancestors had great names for places. Then the white invaders killed most of us and named our land after their home.

I think this meme would be better suggested to say white European immigrants to America.

Other than the earliest settlements, most cities in the US were named by people born in North America.

Exactly - they weren’t “Americans” yet.

Let’s name our town “New [someplace we miss back home].”