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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Suarez, post: 4029442, member: 99239&quot;]Yeah, agreed, but not really all that important imo. To use just three examples, Germany is not a name Germans gave themselves (they call themselves Deutscher which is an old form of the word for <i>folk </i>or <i>people</i>). We associate the whole of the country with just one of their tribes, Germania. The Spanish and French, by the way, refer to them by another, the Allemands.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, South Americans often refer to us as Yankees (with <i>and </i>without pejorative intent) and are blissfully unaware of the Mason-Dixie line or any of the cultural nuances the word carries here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Japan and Japanese are names of uncertain etymology, probably an onomatopoeic corruption. The Japanese call themselves Nihon and their country Nippon. The Chinese call themselves Zhong Nuo (not sure of spelling).</p><p><br /></p><p>There have to be a ton more of these examples. Identities and place names change to meet the needs of the speaker. So unless somehow this show takes the world by storm I don&#039;t see the term Byzantine being replaced by &quot;Romans&quot; any more than I expect to see newscasters talking about the Deutscher, the Nihonese and the Zhongnuos!</p><p><br /></p><p>Rasiel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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