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Originally Posted by DrPhil
I tend to stick with Swahili names.
It's interesting because my colleague believes that Black folks who give their kids Swahili names are setting the kids up for discrimination and potential failure. The same applies to other "strange names." He shits golf size hail when he hears about parents encouraging children to challenging gender. Reading about a "gender challenged" child named Storm would make him fart a thong bikini unicorn. |
I think you should bring a camera and a copy of the article and see happens.
Yeah it's possible that some things for the kid(s) might be more difficult later, but there's nothing stopping them from going by another name as an adult. And, it raises the question of whether the parents' goal is to make the child's life easy or to raise their kids the 'right' way, or to make their kids 'happy' and so on. I don't think many if any parents really wish a child's life to be hard, but that doesn't mean they're going to compromise their values to make the child's life easier either.