Earth names are more than tags only on the map. They affect how people learn about the world and accept their places inside.
Names can send messages and suggest what in society and not evaluated. The road in which it is changed over time can signal the cultural turns.
The United States is the time of changing the place of the place. We are witnessing the name of the Mexican Gulf, the return of the American Gulf, Forts Bragg and Benning and a new re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-named McKinley Mountain.
President Donald Trump’s powers are part of a birthday game that recognizes Earth names to “restore American size to restore American magnitude to restore American magnitude to restore American magnitude.”
In our research on the placement, this “name game” is used to explain the subtle and delicate messages of the shared symbols and non-subtle messages.
As geography teachers and researchers, we also recognize the educational and emotional impact on which its name can have the public.
Names names may have psychologically affected
Changing the name of a place is always the act of power.
Strong people use the place to control the identity, to support the identity, to support their reputations and revenge against their opponents and achieve political goals.
These actions may have a strong psychological impact, especially when something that threatens the name. Changing a place can reasonably change the image, links or feeling that people are in this place where people are here.
In Senandoah County, two schools called Virginia, for the first time in the two schools, students have been on the emotional roller coastal ship in recent years. Schools, a black man killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, the national support on the murder of George Floyd, named National Support in 2020.
Four years later, the local school staff restored the original converlation names after managing the Board of Directors of Conservatives.
Last night, 5 to 1 votes, Sheenandoah County, Virginia school staff, the first decision decided to change the name of the three schools honoring confederate leaders. Stonewall Jackson HS, Brown V opened a few years later. 🗃️ #civilWarmemory www.cnn.com/2024/05/09/09/u …
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– Kevin M. Levin (@ Ciscemymemory.Bsky.Social) 10, 2024 at 2:52
A black eighth grader in the mountain View high school – now re-modified Stonewall Jackson High School – a board meeting that will affect the planned change:
“I had to represent a man fighting for my fathers to be a slave. If this plaque decides to restore names, I wouldn’t feel like I was assessed and respect.” The Board has still confirmed the change, 5-1.
Even outside schools, the names of the earth acts as a “secret curriculum.” They give the public to the public about how society or the nation saw themselves, as well as the prospects of his historical and prospects, which are considering the public’s attention or decent.
Earth names affect the perception, experience and emotional connection of people both consciously and subconsciously. Psychologists, sociologists and geography have investigated how their part of this place is psychic or lacking or in the school, mountain or park, or indifference to the psyche.
A fairy tale from two castles
The change in the name of the places can rally supporters of the leader through rebranding.
Trump and Fort Bening to restore Trump’s orders, both initially called Fort Benning, called Confederate generals, explain this effect. The Congress was changed to Fort Liberty and Fort Moore after taking a law that prohibits the use of the use of confederate names for federal devices.
Trump promised his followers a campaign, if selected, Fort Bragg’s “bring the name back”.
To be around the federal ban, the Secretary of Defense Hegseth was appointed as dishonest without a confederation connection – a two-related decorated army veteran with Pete Hegseth – Bragg and Benning.
If you want, calling a hand or a stroke of a hand or a stroke, this tactic has allowed the defense department to revive political installments without violating the defense department.
The recovery of Alar Bragg and Benning names can feel like those who resist the original name change or have emotional relationships through the memories of names or key names.
However, the names are still the reminders of the original union with the soldiers of military bases.
The name of the place of the place is the game
During Obama and Biden administrations, the names of the place names were aimed at recognizing the names of the names of the insulting or humiliating place and local names.
For example, the highest peak in the highest peak mountains, in September 2024, the name was changed to Kuwohi to the word “Holder” from the Confederation General in September.
Under the Trump Office, Earth names are clearly developed to return to reform efforts, and Trump is part of a wider attack.
President Barack Obama has changed the Mount of Alaska McKinley in 2015 in 2015 to replace the fourth heritage and change a long-standing name for the mountain. The authorities in Alaska, called the name of the name to the Denali and supported the name change in 2015.
Trump, on the first day of the office in January 2025, Denali was replaced on Mount McKinley, the opposition of the Republican politicians in Alaska. The state legislation adopted a resolution to be reconsidered a few days later.
Georgia Rep. Earl Buddy Carter, the recent legislative proposal, made a recent legislation to call the Denmark Trump’s expansion desires to support the expansion of Trump.
Denmark officials and Greenlanders saw the Absurd offer of Carter and damaged diplomatic relations. It is not the first time that the name of the name of the place is used as a symbolic form of insults in international relations.
The rename of the Gulf of Mexico in the Gulf of the American could seem impossible, but it is already reflected in general navigation applications.
A better way of choosing the place names
When leaders renamed the sharp, one-sided fashion – often due to ideological reasons – these names are risking the deeply connected communities such as additional forms of memory, identity and place.
A better alternative, in our opinion, in the process of changing picturesque landscapes, it would be the name of a meaningful picture viewer.
This approach does not avoid ads, but changes should not be used to respond to the social and psychological needs of communities and the developing cultural identity of the places and simply to collect political points.
Instead, to promote public participation – through critical inspections that seriously carry out the needs of landscape effects and affected communities can develop a common sense in a decision that can give more remaining power.
The most recent place names already affect class experience. Students do not remember new location labels, but are also wanted to change their relationship with these places and nations and the world.
As in the world, the next regime, as the next regime, which applies the names of the names of the names of the names of the name, can be easily changed. The result may be a name game that never ends.
Seth T. is a candidate in Geographering at the University of Kannesh Tennessee.
Derek H. Alderman is a professional professor of a chancellor at the University of Tennessee.
Jordan Brasher is a professor of geography at Macanester College.
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