[kordless]

I had a startup where we put countries in a pulldown. The country list was pulled verbatim by me from one of Google's properties, which I assumed to be up to date. Within a few days I had several emails from people in Macao saying the name of the country was wrong and needed to be fixed. The entry had some mention of China in parenthesis and it wasn't until I researched a bit further I realized it was a 'special administrative region' of China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_administrative_region

While I had no horse in the race, I welcomed the opportunity to learn more about someone else's culture. Perhaps it's not so much taking sides as it is better understanding all the people who are involved.