Defyromize me and call me by my name
After the official U.S. recognition of Macedonia under its costitutional name, there is a lot to do for “defyromizing” american websites and organisations which are still calling it “Fyrom” (Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia).
Well, the team of Reality Macedonia proposed its community to ask Yahoo for using the right costitutional name, putting forward at least three reasons:
1. Common sense – the inhabitants of the country do not use
the “former” part at all, consider it insulting and have the
basic human right to own identity without it.
2. Regional perspective – no other former Yugoslav Republic is
designated as such by Yahoo (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Slovenia)
3. Diplomatic reality – US government does not use the
“FYRO” designation, and Yahoo is an US company.
Let’s hope that Yahoo will refer to Macedonia in the proper way, listening to the rightful queries of Macedonian citizens.
[…] Per la Macedonia poi, le cose si coplicano ancora: da una parte, c’è un pezzo di mondo che continua a chiamarla Fyrom, cosa per ovvie ragioni non gradita dai macedoni, altre volte non viene chiamata affatto. Per esempio, se aprite il portale di icq (ma di moltissimi altri servizi on line) e volete cercare utenti macedoni, vi trovate di fronte alla schermata qui sotto, salvo poi cercare per città, e ritrovare gli utenti perduti. […]