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Old 05-30-2006, 05:06 PM
Wolfman Wolfman is offline
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Some of the names listed as "black" names are actually derived from other languages such as Arabic (eg, Jasmine), other African languages,etc. The real issue here is predominance of usage and the particular patterns of usage that make this an ethnic/racial issue. This is an issue of stigmatiziation piggybacking on certain sterotypes, which do have some reality according to socioeconomc and ethnic indicators.
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