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Originally Posted by DrPhil
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 (he's an extremist but not completely wrong). |
He would probably be interested in this article here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...rticle1878414/
PS I personally think some names have certain connotations - Brandy and Destiny are total stripper names. Amber & Crystal are borderline stripper'y sounding. IMHO. I get it that Amber is a fairly "mainstream" name now, but I can't get past the image of "le stripper".
I also get annoyed when people try to give their kids "exotic" foreign names and they cannot get the spelling right. On the Bachelorette, some dude's daughter is named "Cozy", which is short for "Cozette". Nice try, Captain Genius, but "Cosette" from Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" is spelled with an "S" in it. FAIL.
I also know of a dude from my previous employer whose name was spelled "Juan" and he pronounces it "Jew-wan". This is because his parents were stupid and did not do their research properly. He would also correct people in a rather huffy manner, those who would address him as "Wan" or "Hwan" (which is my phonetic typing approximation for Spanish pronunciation). Sigh.....
And now back to our original thread about parents trying to raise a genderless child or whatever.....