[Wikipedia-l] americanization

[tarquin]

Well most names like "Munich" were anglicized long before the USA existed.
Nowadays we anglicize less - we tend to leave the names of people as 
they are; if  Spanish actor became an international star today, we might 
call him Christobal Colon; but as it is we're left with past anglicization.

Do you think the French wikipedia should write "london" instead of 
"londres"?


Bridget [name omitted for privacy reasons] wrote:

> genocide involves the destorying of culture. americinization is a form 
> of genocide. stop saying that i should be banned for opposing King 
> Jimbo Wales, whoever that is, he probably would rather see the correct 
> name of things, than the same ol americanized crap.
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