“... 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.
Certainly not. I’m just saying a diplomat who is pronouncing the name of the place where he is stationed -the way the people he works with say it -isn’t wrong just because someone here grew up saying it a certain way.
Anybody who does not call the capital of Bavaria “München”, and its land “Bayern” should not be banging on with “Mumbai” or “Yangon”.