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The Latinizing of Names
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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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i was with you until turkey, that shit is just propaganda.
Countries are not people, we shouldn't treat them as people. Individuals deserve to have their actual names used because individuals deserve respect, but nations are an arbitrary modern invention that makes the world worse.
How do you decide which is the "correct" native name for countries with multiple cultures and languages? Using all of them is exhausting and confusing, but only using one of them is oppressing the other ones.
Was more pointing to the fact that country/geographic names are often Anglicized because that's how western maps would label them (incorrect translations or pronunciations).
There's a pacific island nation changing their name to their original because for decades they were known as the colonizer name. Is that wrong or oppressive?
So I guess deciding what to be called would be up to that nation.