Aotearoa or New Zealand: has the moment come to change the countryâs name?
Itâs not the first push to adopt the te reo MÄori name, but a petition signed by 70,000 people has given it fresh momentum
www.theguardian.com
Might be just around the corner.
Personally, I think there's little inherent value in being named after some obscure Dutch province when even most white people in the country don't have substantial Dutch ancestry. Feels like people want to keep the name simply because they're used to it and resistant to change. The argument against that is, people can get used to any name given sufficient time, so with time one will be as good as the other in that sense. And, Aotearoa is an older, non-colonial name unique to the place.