If you flew to Tokyo, and were to ask any Japanese citizen walking on the street, “What country do you live in?”
That person would say without hesitation, “Nippon.”
This would be very awkward, since you would then have to politely correct them and inform them that they live in Japan not in the Make-Believe Land of “Nippon”.
Who is right?
We have Westernized the name of every country we have encountered.
Hindustan ceases to exist and is called India.
Deutchland is forgotten and is now dubbed Germany.
Italia turns to Italy, Spain replaces España,…etc
Criticizing American’s globalization and smothering domination has become far too easy. It isn’t edgy anymore. Its the norm. Though in this particular case, we are not alone.
Spanish people call Germany, Alemania. The French say l’Allemagne and Italians insist its la Germania.
Fortunately, it is limited to the name of the countries and does not extend to the individual names of the citizens.
In conclusion, humans are fundamentally resistant to adopting and adapting to different cultures. However, we are all carbon-based life forms composed of the same basic molecular structure. The actual quantified DNA difference between any organisms is so infinitesimally small. We should thank God, Allah, David Koresh, or whom ever you choose to believe in for giving us the proper genetic coding to be homo sapiens. We are few deoxyribonucleic acid strands away from being a lemur or a sweet potato.
Furthermore, we can’t even agree on one word to describe the asymetrical ellipsoid in which we live on.
Earth (English)
Mundo (Spanish)
Duniya (Hindi)
Erde (German)
Terra (Italian)
We need to get our heads out of our asses and come up with an international word for our planet or we will become the laughing stock of the United Milky Way Planets Federation.
