On the other side are those who embrace a people’s right to give themselves a name, even if it proves to be a new name, without substantial historical grounding.
New names – for peoples, for places, for countries – emerge all the time. My own multicultural society, Australia, and its people, the Australians, are both, by any standard, astonishingly recent creations. And yet we do not face sustained criticism for calling ourselves Australian.
The difference is fundamentally in how we think about the great movements of people that shape and then re-shape our lands. Migration is the oldest human story and one that we all share. (Courtesy of mmtimes.com)
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