For the record, this is still very stupid. 
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Like the Arabs wanting to rename the Persian gulf to arabian gulf
Nah. We are all America now.
Different places call stuff by different names all the time. Is it stupid that English speaker call Germany Germany instead of Deutschland ?
This is apples and oranges, language vs nomenclature
Funny thing, America is the whole continent, not only US.
So the rest of the continent should get a say on what to call it.
Says a lot about the Germans that they don't even get to name their own country.


