Raquel Camargo

SHOOTING AT SALSA FESTIVAL: EVENT CANCELED FOR POLICE INVESTIGATION
Em choque com a tragédia de ontem no Salsa on St. Clair. É devastador ver nosso espaço de união ser tomado pela violência. Como alguém que vive essa cena, meu coração está com as vítimas e toda a comunidade da dança. Que nossa resiliência nos ajude a encontrar força neste momento de luto.

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SHOOTING AT SALSA FESTIVAL: EVENT CANCELED FOR POLICE INVESTIGATION
I am heartbroken by yesterday’s tragedy at Salsa on St. Clair. It is devastating to see our space for unity taken over by violence. As a member of this scene, my heart goes out to the victims and our entire dance community. May our resilience help us find strength during this time of grief.

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Brasil vs. Japan today! 🇧🇷 Found a spot at 1033 Bay St with everything we need. Any fellow Brasil supporters in? Let’s go!

The whole world is about to spend weeks cheering for “Brazil.” Or would that be “Brasil”?

Germany calls itself “Deutschland.” China is “Zhōngguó.” Italy is “Italia.” At some point, English speakers decided to rename the world’s countries in their own language, without asking anyone.

Linguists have a term for this: the local version is an endonym, the version imposed from outside is an exonym. Some people see no problem with that. Others see it as a question of cultural autonomy. Both sides have an argument.

But when it comes to my country, Brasil, the history runs deeper.

The name came from a tree. Pau-brasil, a wood with red sap that Portuguese colonizers sold to Europe as textile dye. Valuable enough to name an entire land before anyone thought to ask the people already living there. Then English speakers inherited that name, swapped the S for a Z because it fit their phonetics better, and the world went along.

And before the colonizers? The Tupi people had already given this land a name. Pindorama. Land of Palm Trees. That one only made it into the history books.

Spelling, history, sociology. Several layers in a conversation that looks simple from the outside.

What do you think? Do country names really need a “translation” into English, or should the original name stay? Comment below.