Place names?

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Inspired by a recent post... what do you think of place named when you're not from the place or have no heritage there... like for example Ireland. I am not Irish, directly or have any past heritage from there... but I may love the name and the place, the culture, the people. Same with people naming their children Asia and having no heritage there. Yay, Nay? what say you?

Comments

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

Honestly I think that is just a biproduct of American culture...with the melting pot/mosaic metaphor and what not. But you have a different way of looking at it than me :).