Barrow or Utqiaġvik: Residents discuss changing the city's name
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Voters approved changing the name of the city of Barrow to Utqiaġvik in October, a change which went into effect on December 1, 2016. In Alaska’s northernmost city, however, residents remain divided about whether they name should’ve changed at all, whether the process was hurried, and whether the Utqiagvik is even the proper Inupiaq place name. Several residents share their perspective on the topic. (Video by Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News)
I’m from South Carolina, not sure how I found this lol
Honestly, I didn't know of this name change until now. I am always into checking the weather to see how cold or when the Sun will rise in northern places like ole Barrow, but every time I ask Cortana, Googol, or Alexa, I don't get any straight answers.
Try google instead of googol. You might find better results. Good luck.
That name for people thinking of traveling there for tourism, is too confusing. While Barrow is a small town, I would say most people in the lower 48 will know what you're talking about when you mention Barrow. The other name when looking at it, for a non-native speaker, you would have no idea how to pronounce it. In fact, it looks like a bunch of letters randomly put together that were pulled out of a hat. They can name the town whatever they like, but I'll still call it Barrow.
@@bob4811 you're right and also there's nothing stopping people from using the old name if they can't remember this one
When people go in different countries it makes sense that some place names may be hard to pronounce. And the Inuits are basically their own nation too, not the same as Anglo America. So what's wrong with them changing the name?
Let me guess, you're white? 🙄
I'm going to call it Barrow since I cant pronounce Utqiaġvik I've tried and failed multiple times
Dude I've just heard about the name change and it's hard to say lol, it didn't even reach wikipedia for awhile I think lol
I guess racists aren't smart enough to pronounce the indigenous name 😂
Ok Bob
@@MsAnon4223 ok boomer
I'm a Louisiana girl what am i doing here lol
If there was a vampire movie based in my hometown I'd sure as hell want it known by it's proper name of Utqiaġvik! #30daysofnight
Nuuk, Iqaluit, Sǫ̀mbak'è, Utqiaġvik...those are some tough-sounding names from some of the northernmost cities on this planet.
Sombak'e is yellowknife right?
@@kets4443 Yes.
I’m from Arizona what am I doing here?
tbh if I was in Arizona, I'd start sprinting my way right up there. Alabama's too hot for me, so I feel bad that you guys have it even hotter.
Barrow work's well on women's nipples.
I'm from Alsace
Government employees at it again.
Ooh I live here. It’s fukin cold
I can imagine that, especially in your dark winter season. So, to stay warm, do people just do stuff like fight over things, such as changing the cities name?
Some years later, almost all of the people have embraced it in the community. Almost Everyone one uses it and sees the value in embracing the Inupiaq name instead. Even the elderly use Utqiagvik now.
When the vampires get there, from 30 days of Night, it wont matter
@Bob yeah, most movies aren’t filmed on location. And?
I sometimes forget that Alaska is part of the United States. Whenever I hear things about it I’m shocked every time like oh yeah that’s right Alaska is a state 😄
Everyone's still gonna call it Barrow
Utqiagvik is so easy to pronounce.
OOT-KIA-GUH-VIK
@@thealaskanforever lol you’re joking right? Two syllables beats four
@@LTLT900 yea they should have thought of illiterates such as yourself before changing the name. sucks for you.
Speak for yourself, racist 🙄
@@thealaskanforever This gave me phlegm.
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“Every vote counts”, no kidding
UTQIAGVIK FOREVER, DECOLONIZE ALASKA HELL YEAH
I wish I could pronounce it.
taco tales but no fr aye from fairbanks
lol........ i have a bad feeling I know what this means.....
It’s barrow I can’t pronounce that new name.
It is UUT-kee-AH-vik. I guess you can just shorten it and call it Vic Town or Uutville.
I guess it's really nothing to do up there but change names.... I live in California and I will always call it barrow Alaska
It's called anti-colonialism. It should have never been known as Barrow in the first place.
Thanks for the history
@@marllon9786 cringe liberal moment
@@enverhalilhoxha. Marllon is right, tho. And this is coming from a casual non-liberal Army guy living in rural Texas.
Ok racist 🙄
Just my opinion but should never change the name Barrow, Alaska come on. small town spend money on something more useful just dumb. Look at how much going cost now for new books sign's and so on was it worth it for 6 people.....,? Not
Agree, especially since nobody is 100% sure of the original name, seem's like a waste of $$
But it's their business. Nobody else has the right to an opinion because it's not our business. When India changed the name of Bombay to Mumbai and China changed the name of Peking to Beijing there were also people around the world who complained. But it must be remembered that many of these place names and city names were made by British colonialists or American colonialists rather than the local peoples themselves. How would you react if a race from another planet had their own name for Earth and they complained that they now had to call it Earth because "that's just dumb". The local indigenous peoples should name their towns without white American interference or butting in of the nose.
@Brian I think you possibly confused the comments by the original poster with mine. I think this person is wrong. Every indigenous community has the right to name their cities, towns, villages, and landmarks according to their own traditions without interference by outside groups. Colonialism had some benefits, but in many cases it resulted in terror and suffering for indigenous peoples.
Sokkies What you say is fine....but in some cases.....like the name change of Barrow Alaska was submitted and passed by just a small number of people. The vast vast majority of residence were apathetic and unaware of the change. Don’t get me wrong... the locals were not tricked by political activists....it’s just that most residence have little interest in local politics and pay no mind to what goes on. In that way it is easy for a small minority to change the name, when in actuality and reality the name change was not the will of the people. In fact...the name was never an issue with the great majority and Barrow was just fine with them.
@@TryTheBLT, Sounds like you don't know Barrow is in the USA. You libs do nothing but whine and divide.
Ya momma named you Barrow. I'm gonna call you Barrow.
That's not the original name, though. But I guess racists aren't smart enough to pronounce the indigenous name.
The unpronounceable native name is still written in colonization characters LOL
Pretty sure colonization benefits them more than decolonization, depending on mainland for even toilet paper.
Trading is not colonisation. There was nothing wrong with the exchange of knowledge between Europeans and indigenous Americans but it could've been done without taking their land and making them very poor
@@gamermapper natives are only poor on their reservations, natives living in the rest of the country are doing well.
Half these people are either stoned or drunk...
Why not both?