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?

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