"One of the few Americanisms that I do dislike, however, is the way that some foreign names get mispronounced.

Oh how I concur with that! It is not universal, but it is much too common. I am not sure what happens in the brain of some people when they hear various foreign words pronounced correctly. They seem to have a filter that says: "I am not going to make those funny sounds, no matter how the natives say it!"
   I have heard 'news' readers on TV listen to experts say words like Iraq correctly, then they turn around and continue to get it wrong.

(To be fair, it is NOT only Americans who are guilty. I posted before of some English reporter for the BBC a few years ago who pronounced Nicaragua as "Nick-uh-RAG-you-a")