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Naming children is much more difficult than it might appear. Coming up with a name that is traditional enough to have appropriate gravitas for an adult but modern enough not to sound stodgy as it ages is a very fine line. Oh, and it must also please the relatives, who often expect that the newest member of the family will be graced with name that tips its hat to an elderly member of the family. The child's first and middle names must also must combine well with the child's surname, and don't forget that you'll say/yell it a million times before the child reaches the ripe old age of ten, so it should roll off tongue and have some carrying power. That's a tough set of criteria.
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They can't. They would immeadiatly be charged with a "hate crime" and branded a racist for life.
FYI, You’re late to the party. These names have been ridiculed relentlessly by other than POC as well as Black people, so people should not get their tighty whities in a twist.
FYI, You’re late to the party. These names have been ridiculed relentlessly by other than POC as well as Black people, so people should not get their tighty whities in a twist.
I dislike anti-white whiners as much as the next person, but I gotta admit -- the author of the article is on target. Those names are just flat-out awful!
Oh look, yet another article slamming on white people.
These people are boring, and really reaching for anything, anything at all, to try to s...it on whites.
It's going to blow up in their faces.
A large part of the reason Donald Trump won was that he told Americans we aren't so awful, while the Democrats constantly berate us and tell us how terrible we are as a country. People do not want to hear that and yes, this is going to blow up in their faces. Can't wait to see their faces on election night!
A large part of the reason Donald Trump won was that he told Americans we aren't so awful, while the Democrats constantly berate us and tell us how terrible we are as a country. People do not want to hear that and yes, this is going to blow up in their faces. Can't wait to see their faces on election night!
Wow! Sometimes I struggle to believe I live in the same universe as other posters and this would be a good example of it. Where did you get the message that we were terrible as a country? Seriously? That's a huge chip you've got on your shoulder!
Don't look at me! My husband and sons all have Old Testament names that have been popular for more than a century. In fact, my eldest's name has been in our family since long before it arrived on these shores in the seventeenth century. My daughter has a slightly more unusual name but nothing that would raise any eyebrows given she's a ginger who looks like she just walked off a ship from Aberdeen.
My father wanted me to have his full name.
My mother told him that she loved him, loved his last name, and both of his two middle names (he and I both = same two middle names), but not his first name.
My father laughed and suggested a compromise....that my mother pick my first name, as long as it = the name of a saint. And that's what they did.
Actually, all of my first cousins on both sides, except for one, are named after saints.
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