Philippines was the name given by Spanish Colonists once they “discovered” the already-inhabited archipelago next to Malaysia and Indonesia. The name was based from King Philip, a Spanish King.
Given that the name has colonial backgrounds, shouldn’t the country try to move forward from its colonial past, starting with renaming the country into a more local-sounding name? Myanmar did it by changing from Burma to Myanmar, for example.
I’ve seen names like Rizalia and Luzviminda float around when talking about a potential re-naming of Jose Rizal’s archipelagic nation.
No, it would be near impossible right now as @cfgaussian pointed out. We need to end the Philippines’ ongoing century of humiliation first.
What’s this about the Philippines’s ongoing century of humiliation? Is it about the Philippines getting colonized over three times (Spanish, then Japanese and later Murderikkkans) in a row?
Yes but it goes even further back to the start of the Philippine-AmeriKKKan war and still continues today thanks to successive clowns in MalaKKKañang.
One more thing
Wrong order, Spanish, 'MurderiKKKan, Japs, and back to MurderiKKKan