Spain village votes to change its 'Kill Jews' name

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12. Have you read about opposition to change street names???

Most people oppose such changes for it confuses people. You live on "Main Street" and that is your address to everyone you know, including people who only deal with you in business. When a City decides to change a name, all type of opposition to that change occurs, not because they oppose the new name, or the person , event etc the new name is to honor, but the need to change their address AND inform everyone their deal with. It is the same as moving, without getting a new home.

We in the US are considered the most mobile people on earth, we think nothing of moving clear across the country. Most other nations have a problem even moving out of the town they were born in (Women move more then men). This is similar to how Chimpanzees move, female Chimpanzee move out of the area where they were born, while all of the males stay in the same band. The Males do NOT move and that is the norm for HUMANS outside of the US (China has also seen a massive movement of its people, but during the Chinese New Year, they have a tendency to return to their family village making the Chinese New Year the most massive movement of people in the world).

Just a comment, that most people will oppose a change in name, because it is a change in name. That change in name, in the modern world, is almost the same a moving and in a change of name of this magnitude it is like having everyone in the town move. People are going to oppose that, do to the cost such a change imposes on them. You see this when a City decides to rename a street after someone, they do their best to rename a street no one lives on and has not business on. When you a City can not find such a street, opposition to the renaming is immense, thus I am surprised that the election was not closer.

Please note, I do NOT support the old name, appropriately it was opposed by most people living in that town, but pointing out the people who voted against it, do have good reason to oppose the change, and those reasons have nothing to do with being anti-Semitic or racist.