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by jiouur903 2920 days ago
This is ridiculous.

You're saying people don't have a right to use a certain name because it meant something else hundreds of years ago.

Your comment is as flawed as "my culture is not your prom dress." Nobody has a monopoly on culture.* That's now how culture works. It's always changing and shifting, and getting borrowed between people.

Go back far enough in history, and you'll see that Greek identity didn't always exist. Greece was a bunch of independent city states, and people were more likely to identify with that city state than with the notion of a greater Greece.

*That is not to say that every borrowing of culture is respectful, or fair. Obviously, whenever you borrow from another culture you must be responsible in how you do so.