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This one was really silly.Czech Republic is now Czechia.
"Its no bodies business but the Czechians"This one was really silly.
A lot of countries are officially called "Republic of X" or "X Republic", but how many of them have it in their informal name too? It's a little odd we'd do it for the Czechs but nobody else.This one was really silly.
Well of course, Rhodesia was a name imposed by colonial settlers who ****ed over the indigenous population for a century. If anything, "New Zealand" is the equivalent to "Rhodesia" and "Aotearoa" is the equivalent to "Zimbabwe".There is a reason why changing the name of Rhodesia was so easy and changing the name of Macedonia was so hard, and its not because one group of people were inherently open minded to change and the other group were not, it's about the meaning that name has to a group of people, and what it says about them. Try changing the name back to Rhodesia and see how far you get.
I'm a member of the Czech community, though not very involved, and I don't know anyone who gave a crap about this name change.A lot of countries are officially called "Republic of X" or "X Republic", but how many of them have it in their informal name too? It's a little odd we'd do it for the Czechs but nobody else.
I don't know why.In the post you quoted, I already acknowledged that the name has a meaning to people. And I'm asking, why does it have that meaning? What specifically gave it that meaning? Is it because it's the name all living people grew up with? Are people's identities too inflexible for them to adapt to a name change? Or is it the concept of a more inclusive, plurinational identity that they're resistant to?