Hugo Chavez wants to rename Angel Falls

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12-25-2009 @ 5:03PM

Tom said...

Who cares what Mr.self important calls the falls. Let him call it whatever he likes and keep the name of record in the Western world as Angel Falls. "Waterfall of the deepest place" well if that isn't the most descriptive name I've ever heard. If they only use his new anti-American name in Venezula maybe it will show him how really unimportant in the grand scheme of things he really is. Same thing with Bridal Veil, the native people are free to call it what ever they like and if the"white" people care to refer to it by a different name so be it. Being that the falls was only able to be viewed by aircraft at the time it was discovered by the "civilized" world its only natural that no one consulted with the native people as to what names existed for the falls. It sure seems that there are a lot of Native American names in common use in the US for our natural wonders (lakes,rivers,mountains,forests) to make blanket statements regarding the practices of "white" people to rename land formations.

12-25-2009 @ 9:07PM

Sierra said...

But, it wasn't "only able to be viewed by aircraft at the time it was discovered by the "civilized" world." It just happens that's how it was discovered -- as far as we know.

If you think for a minute it could only be seen from an airplane, I'd like to know how the indigenous people saw it to give it a name.

I guess, if you feel that we should be able to call things whatever we want to call them, you'd be the first one to pat some guy on the back for calling your kid (who was named after you), Sherman *LOL* As they say, what's in a name?

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