Had a great day where I learned a lot, but reality of being a #WOC, is that I had a good day in spite of racial microaggressions. [Thread]pic.twitter.com/9JzWTl4r8T
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Ughhh. Always hate that. It's the reason I have an "American" name.
"I'll never be able to say it!"
Ugh yes. If they went out and actually met more people from different cultures, they'd develop a wider understanding of names.
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And maybe become fluent in another language....
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When I moved to Kenya I struggled to remember names I'd never heard. One year on and two languages studied its no longer an issue.
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I can't imagine how many people I harmed before bothering to work on it. I'm sorry you experience this and want to say: it's not unsolvable
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white/European/whatever privileged people can very quickly learn to not do this if they try. No excuse. Also you both have awesome names.
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Are you saying this to make us feel better or for /you/ to feel better? And did you really read my tweet? Because if you had you'd see that+
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1. I have an "American" name specifically because it's easy to pronounce and 2. I'm not exactly thrilled about that fact
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The intent was to be supportive, but I see that I didn't do that well. The 'awesome names' comment was insensitive of me - I'm sorry.
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