Myanmar vs. Burma. Which do you prefer?

by CNNGo staff?Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
?Why they changed it I can?t say.
?People just liked it better that way.?
So go the lyrics, in part, to the old swing standard ?Istanbul (Not Constantinople),? a song that makes mirth of the human, and very political, tendency to rename cities and countries.
The reigning example of this fickle tradition is surely Myanmar. Or is that Burma?read more

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