I'm not judging anyone, just describing the view from down here.
Huh, I just learnt that America got its name from the European "discoverer" of South America (or at least, the European who was first supposed to have demonstrated it wasn't Asia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci
What a funny planet we live on. Maybe we should be downgraded by the IAU.