Feel free to name your kid something crazy and make it harder for them to get a job their entire life
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By something crazy you mean not European?
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Yes exactly
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Thanks. Just making sure I understand your prejudices.
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So America is not a great country. Could you give me examples of why America is not great?
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America used to build amazing things like The Empire State Building, Hoover Dam, and Panama Canal. We were so ambitious we sent men to the moon. Today we're sending men into the ladies room. We need to go back to Making America Great Again.
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Now we make trolls.
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The act that dear Abbey still runs in newspapers is mind boggling
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As someone with an oddball name, I can say it’s important for parents to remember that your name is a part of your identity and can impact your personality and image. Be respectful of that. A kid’s name shouldn’t be you expressing your “creative vision” or a political statement.
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Americans having trouble with names unlike theirs is as old as America. We know Red Cloud and Crazy Horse instead of their real, untranslated names. To this day no one can spell or pronounce my last name, which has been on this continent >300 years. Have you met America?
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If your name is Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips, necessary to change to say...Abigail van Buren- a bit more goyish. Could have gone with Ester- gentile chemicals? But you stayed with Phillips, my dear... - Dear Abby's daughter: A name by any other name...https://nyti.ms/2yLxSbs
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It is deeply perverse that a parent would make a politcal statement at the expense of his or her child’s future. Certain duties come first. If the child, as an adult, insists on a statement fine.
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Patrick is an "English" name in America by now, but in England it still points you out as Irish and you could be mocked by current
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I have no idea why you think your comment is relevant to anything.
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To some people, your given name "Patrick" is a political statement. If you read Irish history you'll understand why.
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Again I am unsure that has to do with anything. The article is not about Irish names in England. I do not understand why a parent would knowingly place his or her child at a disadvantage in life. Just seems like someh if you wouldn’t do.
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An Irish parent who gave a child an Irish name was placing that child at a disadvantage when England was running Ireland as a colony. In that context, simply giving Irish kids Irish names became a political statement that did place them at a disadvantage.
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>“The practical effect of that is nobody calls them that . . . So they end up with some truncated name that is Anglicized any way.” Pretty much. I actually went to school with a dude named Ikechukwu, but everyone called him Ike.
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