Comments on: From the Czech Republic to ‘Czechia’: Shaping Modern Identity

By: Drahoš

Drahoš — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 06:53:39 +0000

The very problem is fact that this short name was not discussed in the public. This make our little republic more Czechistan or Czechofert than Czechia.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:05:25 +0000

Mr. Culik presents a lot of very unconvincing arguments against Czechia. It has noting to do with the growing influence of Russia in Czechia, there is no local separatism to speak of in Moravia, only a small, insignificant political party that has no voter support, if you could pronounce Czechoslovakia, you should be able to pronounce Czechia easily, the confusion with Chechnya is a myth and if anyone is confused, she or he should simply learn the difference between the two and it was not President Zeman’s idea, Czechia – Nokia is Culik’s invention – what about India – Nokia, Austria – Nokia etc. etc.. Czechia was codified by the Czech Committee for standardization of geographic names already in 1993 after the country was created. It could not caught on because people like Culik who refuse to use it and speak against if and make up reasons to justify their unsustainable position. This is supposed to be an expert opinion? Give me a break….

By: Tomas Cerveny

Tomas Cerveny — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:11:56 +0000

Really happy to see, that Czechia will get its go finally. The connotations with Nokia I found completely silly, do we have those with Slovenia, Slovakia, Austria or Georgia? Yes, we don´t. The term has been used in an English speaking sources throughout 19th. I´ve been using it personnaly for some years now to refer to my country in short. Some of the opposers stated that the name doesn´t sound English enough, even confusing the Czechia with Chechnya. I say, do we confuse Slovakia and Slovenia, or Lithuania with Latvia? Of course we do! Not a real excuse for omitting the short name. Learning some basic geography is always needed too.

By: Eva Horová

Eva Horová — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:18:30 +0000

I am happy to know that “this article represents the view of the author(s) alone and not European Futures, the Edinburgh Europa Institute nor the University of Edinburgh”. – because these respectable institutions would certainly NOT adopt the confusing and misleading information given in Mr Culik´s article. The heading alone is an example of a wrong claim: No evolution “From the Czech Republic to Czechia” has ever existed – the political name (informing of the state´s type of government or administration = republic) stays WITHOUT CHANGE. The ciore of the matter is nothing else than FILLING A GAP in the UNO list of countries where one box in the form remained empty in 1993, namely the box for “short name of the country” in the English language. Thus it is a minor correction in the entry – it only needs to ADD the short (geographical) name. It has nothing in common with “Shaping Modern Identity”, as the heading of the article has it. I recommend to visit the site http://www.go-czechia.com and also the information given by the Ministry of Foreign Affaires of the Czech Republic (yes, here the Republic is OK).

By: Vladimír Hirsch

Vladimír Hirsch — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:56:54 +0000

Visit: http://www.czechia-heart-of-europe.com/#!news/v9v0k