Ukraine/The Ukraine

[Jules Levin]

Everyone arguing from personal address among individuals is missing the 
point.  Old guys like me are still coherent enough to switch to 
African-American when speaking to my A-A neighbor, but my neighbor is 
rational enough not to tell me to use only A-A even when speaking to my 
own family members in the privacy of my home.
The fact is that a mature country self-confident in its identity does 
not concern itself with the grammatical details of how its neighbor 
speaks its name.    Countries that worry about such things are behaving 
like hypersensitive teenagers.  I realize that now the correct 
response--Oh grow up!--would be considered child abuse, but...
Jules (chalk it up to Alzheimers) Levin

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