America vs Amerika - what is the difference what is being said/implied?

Question

America - Amerika - there seems to be a message to the K in the name -

What if anything is that implication

Where did it come from and so forth

Or is it simply a purposeful mispelling and again what purpose does it serve

Answer 1

The Wikipedia has an interesting article on this topic:

Satiric misspelling
"K" replacing "C"
Replacing the letter "c" with "k" in the first letter of a word came into use by the Ku Klux Klan during its early years in the mid to late 1800s. The concept is continued today within the ranks of the Klan. They call themselves "konservative KKK."

Barcelona squat and anarchist center, labeled "OKUPA Y RESISTE"In the 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, leftists sometimes used Amerika rather than "America" in referring to the United States.[1] It is still used as a political statement today.[2] It is likely that this was originally an allusion to the German spelling of America, and intended to be suggestive of Nazism, a hypothesis that the Oxford English Dictionary supports. It may additionally have been an allusion to the title of Franz Kafka's 1927 novel Amerika.

In the 1987 TV miniseries Amerika, it denoted a Soviet-conquered United States of America.

In broader usage, the replacement of the letter "C" with "K" denotes general political skepticism about the topic at hand and is intended to discredit or debase the term in which the replacement occurs. [9] Detractors sometimes spell former president Bill Clinton's name as "Klinton" or "Klintoon".

A similar usage in Spanish (and in Italian too) is to write okupa rather than "ocupa" (often on a building or area occupied by squatters [10], referring to the name adopted by okupación activist groups), which is particularly remarkable because the letter "k" is not found in native Spanish words. It stems from Spanish anarchist and punk movements which used "k" to signal rebellion [3].

Answer 2

Amerika, with a "k", is reminiscent of the German Afrika Korps, the Wehrmacht units that were deployed to North Africa in World War II and were under the command of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

I believe that the purposeful misspelling of America with a "k" instead of a "c" is intended to suggest the despicable notion that the United States is a fascist country similar to Nazi Germany.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Amerika is different sounding. America sounds more proper and with the k its like it had an accent on the c.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

I remember it started in the '60's used by leftists as a slur.

Answer 8

‚America’ isn’t ‚America’.

We cannot answer this question because your term ‚America’ isn’t clear.

Which continent do you mean? North or South America? And which country in one of theese 2 continents called 'America'?

'America' for 'USA' is politically and geographically not correct.

Answer 9

1st time i heard about it was thru rap group NWA and ice cube. Saying that the US government and White people are racist. Like the White racist group Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

Answer 10

what do you mean by this, amerika just looks mis-spelled