And I would answer in rebuttal that anyone wanting to be fully informed on this topic should read “Policing the scientific lexicon: The new colonialism?” by Rohan Pethiyagoda (Sri Lanka) which can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/5u45569r
-- A partial quote: “Here, writing from the perspective of a scientist who has spent most of his career working in Sri Lanka, a biodiverse developing country, I contend that undoing the perceived harm that inappropriate names and terms can cause people who belong to oppressed communities in the developed world (the West) may harm the greater part of the global scientific community whose native language is not English. Cheng et al. (2023) seek to redress social problems in the English-speaking world (henceforth, the Anglosphere) and especially North America, by imposing terminological and nomenclatural reforms also on the rest of the world. These reforms would carry the unintended consequence of compelling taxonomists in biodiverse countries—especially developing countries—to direct their attention away from the enormous task of describing Earth’s vanishing biodiversity in order to deal with the challenge of revising biological nomenclature and terminology to address issues that have little meaning outside the Anglosphere—particularly the US context. I contend that the US would do better to solve its social and political problems rather than renaming them, and especially, rather than exporting them.“ Please read the entire paper. Very Illuminating. R. ----------------------- Rachel Kolokoff Hopper Follow me on iNaturalist rkhphotography.net ho...@comcast.net Ft. Collins, CO On Dec 7, 2023, at 9:01 AM, Diana Beatty <otowi33...@gmail.com> wrote: Jared Del Rosso published a good addition to this discussion on The Conversation: — https://theconversation.com/why-dozens-of-north-american-bird-species-are-getting-new-names-every-name-tells-a-story-217886 An interesting point he made: "all eponymous names imply human ownership over birds....Science has greatly expanded human understanding of birds in recent decades. We now recognize that birds are intelligent, with rich emotional lives. Radar, lightweight transmitters and satellite telemetry have helped scientists map the transcontinental migrations that many bird species make each year. Trading eponymous names, which treat birds as passive objects, for richer descriptive names reflects this sea change in our understanding of avian lives." Diana Beatty El Paso County On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 8:02 AM Greg Osland <gregosla...@gmail.com> wrote:
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