nationhood nomenclature

Burma v Myanmar
It’s interesting to see which news outlets use which name.

Today this reminded me of a college-era co-worker explaining to others why he said he and his family were from Persia, not Iran.

A rose is a rose is a rose?

The correspondent described how a middle-aged man in one of the city’s tea shops whispered: “I really want change — but they have guns and we don’t, so they’ll always win.”bbc

03 October 2007

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