my name is not let's assume I ask for
your name what is your name my name is a
lien but I never heard that name before
so instead I call you Alan nice to meet
you aleem soon enough you will get there
my name is not Alan it's Alena
this may sound funny but it happens to
all of us our names get messed up all
the time but what if I told you that the
world map has the same problem take
Kenya for example this country is named
after a mountain when a British person
came to visit the local said this is
Mount Eden Yaga the British man couldn't
pronounce it so he said from now on this
is Mount Kenya and because of that
mistake an entire country now has a
different name on the world map in
Madagascar I saw a beautiful country
only to learn that its name is a mistake
Marco Polo thought this was a Mogadishu
Somalia and he misspelled that word to
Madagascar and now the entire nation has
to go by that name because of another
in the US I went to Nebraska to meet the
American Indians but they're not Indians
Columbus didn't know where he landed he
thought he was in India but in reality
he was in America so he labeled every
one of these guys Indian the mother
tribe of the Sioux Nation and we're
still here
in life the person with power can
literally change the world map however
they want they can change your country
name your city name and they can even
change your name I mean I know how it
feels because it happened to me too when
I first went to the United States as a
fresh immigrant I told my roommate from
Wisconsin that my name was no sire he
thought no sire was too complicated so
he called me not instead just like the
rapper I hated that name but turns out
Nass is not just a rapper
it also means people in Arabic so I
decided to keep that name and start mass
daily I got lucky with the name change
but many others did not and now they are
taking action these people didn't like
their country name it was called Ceylon
by the British so they changed it and
now it's the people in India didn't like
the British name Bombay
so they change
now it's monk by
in Vietnam people change the city named
Saigon to Ho Chi Minh slowly but surely
countries are standing up to their real
names and people are too now I require
my closest friends to call me no sire
because that is my real name
this may sound trivial but it's a big
deal to a lot of people because nothing
is more powerful than being able to
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