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What’s In A Name?

Are we from the United States, or are we Americans? We use both terms and neither appears to bother anyone. This is not so if you live in the Southeast European nation of Macedonia—or is it North Macedonia?

Perhaps this sounds petty. But, the dispute regarding if the former Yugoslavian region should be called Macedonia or North Macedonia became such a sticking point it

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