Consider the debate now underway in Myanmar – or Burma to some. Because the imperial tongue found it difficult to pronounce “Myanmar,” the country’s no-nonsense British masters renamed it Burma (redrawing its borders as well for good measure).
发自新德里——在大大小小的各个方面上，亚洲仍然生活在帝国主义残留阴影之下。比如说如今在缅甸（Myanmar）——对有些人来说是Burma——发生的争论。当年那些讲究实效的英国殖民者觉得“Myanmar”的发音太困难，于是就把缅甸的名字改为“Burma”（同时为了方便测量，还重新划定了缅甸的边界）。