The article "Please Stop Misspelling Our Name!" from the Upfront Magazine is about how many people are spelling Colombia "Columbia." It's unfair to Colombians that people are misspelling their name. Colombians are now fighting back. "It's Colombia, NOT Columbia" is a campaign made to shame people who use the misspelling. The author wants the reader to know that misspelling the name of a country is bad and unfair to countries.
Throughout the article it talks about how many people use the misspelling. Even famous people such as Paris Hilton, Richard Nixon, and Justin Bieber, have misspelled it on social media. The article even says that after the misspelling was tweeted within minutes dozens of people tweeted back, "It's Colombia, NOT Columbia." People should care to correctly spell names of countries. If not your disrespecting the country and all the people in it. Especially if your always using the misspelling. When famous people tweet something many people read it and they might think that's how you spell it. It could get even more people to use the misspelling.
The article also mentions that part of the reason why many people misspell Colombia is because people don't really care about the country. The article also says, "To many Colombians, the error isn't just a typo, it shows that people aren't paying attention to Colombia beyond it's reputation for poverty and drug cartels." I think it's unfair for people to judge a country based on poverty. Even if you do judge them on that, it doesn't you mean you should misspell the name of the country. If you really knew something about the country you would know how to spell their name.
In conclusion, people shouldn't judge countries based on reputation. Also small countries that aren't talked about often. If you want to mention a country in a tweet or any other social media websites, check the spelling! Otherwise your disrespecting Colombians and other countries.
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