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Originally posted by DOVE1920
Yes ma'm it's spelled Denim....I don't know what his full name but its in the new Ebony.
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But in response to earlier comments I guess I just don't like how we have to make our names fit society's idea of appropriate names i.e. nothing to "ethnic". I went to HS with a Korean girl who changed her name to Linda because her birth name was considered "too difficult" to pronouce. To me that is an insult to her parents who decided to name their child something different.
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And I don't have a problem with ethnic names, but most of these names aren't truly "ethnic". They're creative intepretations. Again, there's nothing wrong with creativity, but just because your parents gave you a name, it doesn't mean you have to keep it. In a previous thread, someone mentioned an Asian child with the name Shithead (not pronunced the way you think it might be). Within that child's originating culture, that name might have had one meaning, but in American culture, it has a completely different one. What's wrong with giving a child one "creative" name and one less-creative one, that way when the child chooses a profession, he or she can choose which name to use?
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