When India Changes Its Name to Bharat

[VinnyVeritas]

Will we be calling them brats?

Bay rats?

Baa-rations?

Or will we continue, out of habit, to say Indians?
I know that going out of your way to say Native Americans is a pain in the ass.

Native Subcontinentians?

 

[Lazaran]

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The OP is a perpetually aggrieved and inconvenienced baby.

It would probably be easier to simply refer to “those people” as “they” or “them”.

*nods*

 

[VinnyVeritas]

Yeah. I'm the one with a *tic*...


Do you lack all self-awareness, or is it just situational?

 

[ll74]

BRICS would need to change its name to BRBCS

Much more difficult to pronounce in a catchy way

 

[VinnyVeritas]

Will we be calling them...

 

[John_von_Neumann]

Yeah. I'm the one with a *tic*...


Do you lack all self-awareness, or is it just situational?

You should ask that question while looking into a mirror.

 

[VinnyVeritas]

BRICS would need to change its name to BRBCS

Much more difficult to pronounce in a catchy way

Good one.

"They" could go with BBRCS.

BBQ-RCKS?

 

[ll74]

Good one.

"They" could go with BBRCS.

BBQ-RCKS?

Too western

 

[VinnyVeritas]

It could be lamb instead of beef...

 

[spegil]

Well if PeeKing could become BayZhing, why not India

 

[DeluxAuto]

AJ's weird obsession with brown folks continues.

 

[VinnyVeritas]

Well if PeeKing could become BayZhing, why not India

They would never call themselves BayChink...

There's an enmity there.

 

[Lazaran]

You should ask that question while looking into a mirror.

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And the OP lacks a lot more than self-awareness.

*nods*

 

[DeluxAuto]

They would never call themselves BayChink...

There's an enmity there.

Don't ever question why we correctly call you a racist piece of shit.

 

[colddiesel]

Bharat is used as the countries name in the Hindi version of the constitution since 1947, India in the English version, and Hindustan in some others. All three names have been used for many years before the Brits arrived and Bharat and India are both more than 2000 years old.

 

[phrodeau]

AJ's weird obsession with brown folks continues.

He lives in constant fear of the Swami Army.

 

[DeluxAuto]

He lives in constant fear of the Swami Army.

The situational Native American is looking for a keemoswami.

 

[John_von_Neumann]

They would never call themselves BayChink...

There's an enmity there.

Giggling with busybody over racially-charged quips is a bit on the nose, don't your think?

 

[Rightguide]

The do like their rats in India.

 

[DeluxAuto]

don't you think?

He does not.

 

[SubzeroGirl]

I know I’m going to forget the h or put it in the wrong place.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

I know that going out of your way to say Native Americans is a pain in the ass.

I never had a problem saying it. It's a term. Fucking learn to say it and do it, bada-bing.

You're so bored with yourself constantly having to find things to bounce your primadonna off of and it's glaringly pathetic.

Remember when you used to talk shit about this forum on a daily basis in the GB like it was hurting your soul? I remember.

 

[dkovic77]

Will we be calling them brats?

Bay rats?

Baa-rations?

Or will we continue, out of habit, to say Indians?
I know that going out of your way to say Native Americans is a pain in the ass.

Native Subcontinentians?

You call them what they want to be called.

I know it’s difficult for you to be able to comprehend that, it’s a respect thing toward them and not a comfort thing for you.

 

[RandyRebecca]

India did change the names of three cities a couple of decades back:

Calcutta became Kolkata
Madras became Chennai
Bombay became Mumbai

Well if PeeKing could become BayZhing, why not India

China didn't actually change the name of their capital city, but the method of romanization used for translation into languages that use the Roman alphabet (including English). It still is Peking if you use the old Chinese system of CHI and KI instead of the new Chinese system of JI that was introduced in the People's Republic of China in the 1950s. With US support, it was Taiwan (i.e. the Republic of China) that occupied China's UN seat until 1971, and the People's Republic of China wasn't 100% recognized until 1979, when the use of Beijing instead of Peking became much more widespread in western countries.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

I’m getting the impression that calling India Bharat is a Hindu nationalist thing. It’s meant to be an attack on the notion that India is a multi-ethnic state.