

Plenty of that across languages since people would go to an area and ask the locals “what do you call this lake/river/mountain range/desert/ocean?” And since that was the only lake/river/mountain range/desert/ocean the locals really knew about, it was just called that in their language.


It’s essentially the same as the wealthy English Suffragettes. The main leaders of that went on to become fascists because they weren’t actually interested in equality, they just wanted to move up the social hierarchy