I’ll admit I was rather ignorant growing up and the first time I had a conversation with someone and I pronounced Iran as “I ran” everyone roasted the shit outta me and shut me down, which like fair whatever. But my point is the pronunciation is secondary if you get the concept; that’s kinda the point of language and accents in general. If we have to pronounce every country or place as its residents call it then we should roast and ignore every English speaker that says “Germany” instead of Deutschland.
Ehhhhh… So yes, but actually no.
Ex: Bozo (this is a significant mispronunciation of your name) sure is racist!
If people understand I’m talking about you, good enough, right?
Two problems: 1) people may not know I’m talking about you, 2) people will likely assume I’m wrong… But as we’ll see, maybe not…
Names are important, and if you can’t bother to get someone’s name right, or call a group of people by their preferred demonym, I can’t be bothered to respect what you are saying.
While I respect that the idea being conveyed is the important bit, the idea being conveyed is going to sound racist as shit, and like you dont know what you are talking about.