Well, the borders and names of many countries in sub-saharan Africa have gone through dramatic changes over the past few decades.
Not trying to be a jerk, let's say he's 45 years old, and lived all his life in Kinshasa (previously Leopoldville), then most of his life was lived in a country named Zaire. So then there are the why's of which countries were actually valid states, and whether this or that country counts more. So maybe language is the answer? If he speaks Kongo, is he Kongo or Congolese, or if he speaks Ligala or several languages, then what?
Maybe the reporter asked him which he prefered? Maybe the editor vetoed it. Maybe they all had similar discussions we're having in this thread.
There have been changes to be sure. As also happened/is happening in Eastern Europe. But of course these countries have a name, no matter how new, and journalists have no problem using them in those other cases.
Why is this down voted? Its what most people who use ad-blockers think. Its probably the most honest comment in this thread. HN members might not like it, but so what?
Ha! Football truly is so ridiculously complicated that I didn't even try to learn how it works, and still don't fully understand its absurdities.
Intuitively, as a child, I suspected that football was over rated based on the apparent reality that it was men running in circles, and then slamming into each other, without any obvious goal. Randomly a ball would be kicked for any reason, maybe.
I was 20 years old before I figured out that the basic rules of the game were 4 tries to move the ball 10 yards from the "line of scrimage" before the other team gets an opportunity to do the opposite. With this in mind add umpteen thousand technicalities.
More than a decade of elementary school, middle school, high school, video games, Thanksgivings and Super Bowl Sundays, and no one spelled that out for me. Not parents, not uncles, not coaches, not friends. I had to dig through a few books, before picking up some sort of For Dummies/Idiot's Guide book to find something that clearly stated that.
4 hours of TV time, to express one hour of clocked game play, in which almost no actual game playing happens. Bah! May as well watch golf.
Oh wait, already do. Yet another awful thing I have to watch at family gatherings.
Not trying to be a jerk, let's say he's 45 years old, and lived all his life in Kinshasa (previously Leopoldville), then most of his life was lived in a country named Zaire. So then there are the why's of which countries were actually valid states, and whether this or that country counts more. So maybe language is the answer? If he speaks Kongo, is he Kongo or Congolese, or if he speaks Ligala or several languages, then what?
Maybe the reporter asked him which he prefered? Maybe the editor vetoed it. Maybe they all had similar discussions we're having in this thread.