Should Rhodesian Ridgebacks be Re-named?

[slimsid2000 10]

Should Rhodesian Ridgebacks be re-named Zimbabwean Ridgebacks?

[Darbees 10]

Or rename Peking duck, the list is endless.

[libuse 10]

Only if Persian cats become Iraqi Cats

[mojo1 10]

What about the Rhodesian Ridgebacks that come from a place near worksop, do they get to keep their identity?

[Himupnorth 10]

Only if Persian cats become Iraqi Cats

 

I think they might prefer Iranian.

[slimsid2000 10]

What about the Rhodesian Ridgebacks that come from a place near worksop, do they get to keep their identity?

 

Yes, of course there is a Rhodesia near Worsop. I forgot that.

[mojo1 10]

Yes, of course there is a Rhodesia near Worsop. I forgot that.

 

My sister lives there

[Agent Orange 11]

Mugabe Ridgeback would be better

[Darbees 10]

Mugabe Ridgeback would be better

They should set a pack of them onto him.

[thenewborn 10]

No they shouldnt be renamed. Just because the place is called Zimbabwe now? Bombay is really called Mumbai, but its still called bombay potatoes. Its not the country desperately clinging onto the colonial past, but its like when they changed german shephards name to alsation during the world war. Pointless.

 

Great dogs though... both ridgebacks and german shephards

[slimsid2000 10]

Ah but you know what a stickler I am for Political correctness.

[artisan 10]

Why did they rename it Zimbabwe?

 

There never was such a country as Zimbabwe ever, as until Cecil Rhodes, and his like, went there, countries in that area did not exist.

The country boundaries were laid out and named by the colonising nations.

 

To pretend that some nation called Zimbabwe existed before is nonsense.