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🌊 1. One gulf, two names

In January 2025, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America" for official US use. Mexico, and most of the rest of the world, kept the old name.

Gulf of America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU9J8enLiX4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9NpRtIKIcw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZPrtgkzAj4

✍️ Write here, on your own.

1. Is this just about a name change, or is something else happening here?

2. Who has the authority to name geographical features?

3. Does naming something make it real?

4. If the US government decides to call it the Gulf of America, does that make it the Gulf of America?

5. What would make that name "true" or "legitimate"?

🗺️ 2. Borders that change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_UVPTdjxC0

✍️ Write here: if Google Maps shows different borders depending on where you are looking from, whose reality is "correct"?

⚖️ 3. Who decides?