And let me put it this way: You can call it anything you want - and we do call countries by different names (all one has to do to know that is watch the opening ceremonies of the Olympics). But to act like someone else - who's been there and worked with them - is wrong for pronouncing it the way they do in their own native tongue is a little ignorant.
I agree with that. :)
“... is wrong for pronouncing it the way they do in their own native tongue is a little ignorant.”
Actually, English has traditional pronunciations for many places, Paris, Rome, Florence, Moscow, Cologne, Bangkok, Rio de Janiero, Tokyo, and so on, as well as English names for countries. I hope you aren’t saying we should be like those fatuous TV anchors who insist on “Barthelona” or Myanmar. It’s “key-ev” in standard English, no matter how it’s pronounced in any other language.