Should John Lewis "hang It's Head In Shame"

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2323514/Malvinas-globe-John-Lewis-Department-store-sells-95-product-Argentine-Falklands.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
They claim it is "vintage inspired" but the Islands have never been known by the Argentinian name and what's more they have existed as the Falklands longer than Argentina has even existed. Unforgivable surely!

[Mamyalynne]

It is a mistake that slipped through and has now been rectified.

[Zeuhl]

Well no, not really

It was a 'blunder'

Not a deliberate slight or political statement

[Answerprancer]

Oh yes, I can hear "rule brittannia" resounding through the pages of the Daily Bogroll as the article is read by thousands of outraged bitter old farts.
I think there is absolutely nothing wrong with the islands being printed on a globe using their PROPER name. BTW John Lewis Partnerships is a wonderful company, they look after their staff well and have an excellent track record
(and no, I don't work for them). They should be proud to be selling globes printed up like this. I would hope that Tibet is on there too.

[RATTER15]

A cock-up, im sure we will get over it!

[Sharingan]

No, it was a mistake, no harm intended.

[Prudie]

hang its head in shame? wow I thought they must have been making cushions out of kittens! A minor misjudgement at the most.

[craft1948]

It nearly put me off doing my online Waitrose order...............

[jim360]

Is "Los Malvinas" actually their proper name though? I don't think it is. Wikipedia:

"The Falkland Islands took their English name from "Falkland Sound", the channel between the two main islands, which was in turn named after Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland, by Captain John Strong, who landed on the islands in 1690.[1] The Spanish name, las (Islas) Malvinas,[2] is derived from the French name, Îles Malouines,[3] named by Louis Antoine de Bougainville in 1764 after the first known settlers, mariners and fishermen from the Breton port of Saint-Malo in France."

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands#Etymology

[1] http://www.falklands.info/history/histarticle19.html
[2] http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=Falklands&;B10=Buscar&dict=enes
[3] http://www.falklands.info/history/history2.html

Anyway, the older name is "Falkland Islands".

[Zeuhl]

AP

How can Malvinas be the 'proper name' when these are British territories inhabited by British people who call them The Falklands and have been since the time when most Argentinian ancestors were still in Europe and the idea of colonising in South America and displacing the indigenous people was only a glint in their eye?

Are you trolling? :-)

[ToraToraTora]

There proper name is "THE FALKLAND ISLANDS" they have never been known by what the Argentines call them, simply because Argentina itself has existed less time than the Falklands have been called the Falklands. Covetting something does not rename it.

[Answerprancer]

Ok Jim, I admit I was going a bit over the top there but you get the general gist of what I'm getting at. This is classic DM Jingoistic b*llsh!t the sort of stuff people like AOG laps up.

[Answerprancer]

Maybe so Tora - but you get my point ;-)

[ToraToraTora]

Their! doh!

[Answerprancer]

It's "their dough" actually ;-)

[jim360]

No of course it's a silly mistake that is being overhyped by the DM -- on the other hand, you shouldn't overstate things in the other direction either.

[ToraToraTora]

What point? that you are calling apples oranges? what is their proper name?

[Mamyalynne]

I often fail to see why so much energy is expended on outrage and cries of 'Unforgivable' ! If John Lewis had said they did not care or had done so on purpose fair enough, but a mistake...good grief.

[Sqad]

Jim.

Is "Los Malvinas" actually their proper name though? I don't think it is. Wikipedia:

no she is feminine.....Las Malvinas.....................;-)

[jim360]

Haha, nice catch Sqad! You can tell I don't speak Spanish.