I mean I'm sure every country has stuff named after people, but it feels like it's done to the extreme here in the US. Seems like every city has a "Jefferson Street" and a "Washington Avenue". Every school I attended was named after a person. I mentioned in the megathread how my nice local park named after a flower got a name change after a pig got shot near it, so they named it after him.
Just seems like God forbid we have generic names for our roads, schools, parks, bridges, etc. Nope, gotta name it after someone. Even then, it's almost always either a politician, capitalist, or cop. Never like, a good teacher that people liked or otherwise good person except MLK Jr.
I think it's reflective of our hyper-individualized culture. And then there's how everything else that isn't named after a person is "Veterans Memorial", but that's a different discussion.
years after i graduated and had moved away, the state road my high school was on (formerly just a number like "S.R. 420") was renamed to Ronald Reagan Avenue. whenever i come back to see family and see it, i'm just like :yea:
i am 99% certain he never came with 50 miles of the place, and the renaming happened like 20 years after his presidency.
I've noticed a lot of stuff getting named after Reagan in recent years. Definitely a power move on the part of reactionary boomers, and libs are all like "Reagan was the last good Republican" so they don't fight it...
According to Aimee Therese he’s the one true leftist president