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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that people should pronounce them however they want - particularly if English is their mother tongue and only language.

I grew up speaking Spanish and have always been annoyed when people (mainly non-native Spanish speakers) try to correct the native country pronunciations for Spanish-speaking countries. E.g, Me-jico, C-ooba, Chil-e - instead of Mex-ico, Cuba and Chil-ee per English pronunciation. It annoys me to no end bc these same people don't say - Sverige, Deutschland, Espana, Turkiye, or Nipon. Why correct for the Spanish if you're not native? totally unnecessary. [/quote]

I think Spanish words are a hot button issue, because people are afraid of being called out for being ignorant or worse, racist because they are not pronouncing those words or names correctly. Some just want to appear some version of “woke”/aware/intellectual. Then there’s a lot of talk about microagressions if you mispronounce a name. It’s hard to keep track of.[/quote]

I think it's more of the trying to sound woke/intellectual because it's easier to add the accent in Spanish than presumably any other language. But for that reason, it just sounds strange because it's not done in other languages. It's ok to say the English name of a country when you're speaking in English. In fact, that's the more correct way to do it here. It's also ok to have an American accent if you grew up here. Why pretend otherwise? It's just a weird observation and something that has always annoyed me about the hyperwoke. [/quote]

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