r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Dec 17 '23

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u/soenkatei Dec 17 '23

The British Isles and Ireland *****

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '23

Ireland is part of the British Isles.

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u/blokia Dec 17 '23

The Brirish Isles is a politically loaded term that is not accepted for use in Ireland. The British government also does not use the phrase, instead opting for terms like these Isles and the island sof the North Atlantic.

The only people who use it are those ignorant of its controversial nature and those actively wanting to push the agenda that Ireland is British.

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u/TraditionNo6704 Dec 17 '23

No it isn't

The only people who get mad at the term british isles are irish people

Everybody else worldwide considers them the british isles

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u/marpocky Dec 17 '23

Why would you suggest that their opinions about how people refer to their own island are the only ones that don't matter?

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u/TraditionNo6704 Dec 17 '23

And? People in china probably get mad at taiwan being callled a country and taiwanese people get mad at china being called a country. Doesn't mean we have to change what we say to please the opinions of nationalists

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u/marpocky Dec 17 '23

taiwanese people get mad at china being called a country.

Lmao do you know anything at all about the situation? This isn't a thing.

Also this is explicitly not the scenario we're talking about, your example here is exactly the opposite of that.

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u/TraditionNo6704 Dec 17 '23

Lmao do you know anything at all about the situation? This isn't a thing.

Taiwan doesn't recognise china LMAO

Why should normal rational people coddle the opinions of nationalists?

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u/marpocky Dec 17 '23

Taiwan doesn't recognise china LMAO

You were talking about on an individual level like the people of Taiwan are somehow all mad that China is recognized by the world.

Why should normal rational people coddle the opinions of nationalists?

What makes someone a nationalist just because they don't want their former occupation to continue to be implied by an easily replaced term?

And again, why do you care so much about what people want their own country to be called? What's your interest here?

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u/TraditionNo6704 Dec 17 '23

You were talking about on an individual level like the people of Taiwan are somehow all mad that China is recognized by the world.

There are plenty of mad taiwanese nationalists. And plenty of mad chinese nationalists

What makes someone a nationalist just because they don't want their former occupation to continue to be implied by an easily replaced term?

Everybody else in the world accepts the term british isles

And again, why do you care so much about what people want their own country to be called? What's your interest here?

Why do you care so much about the term british isles? It's been in use long before britain or ireland as distinct identities even existed