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I mean countries have always done that, just not quite this stupid but also often very stupid. People in Japan call their country Nippon, not Japan. People in Germany call their country Deutschland. There's a ton of countries that English just straight up changed the names of for reasons varying from some form of probable racism to misunderstanding that they never bothered resolving.
I'm not defending this move, it's dumb as hell. Just pointing out that "dumb as hell" isn't new.
In French Deutschland is Allemagne because of some random tribe we named for how they said everybody.
I'm pretty sure we just sent some half deaf guy to Asia too. And that's how Nippon became Japon, Beijing became Pekin, etc.
Amyways, exonyms are cringe.