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Help[Opinions] Re: Maple
in reply to a message by abbasdaughter
I've lived in hugely ethnically diverse areas most of my life too, but I would still look askance at an Asian, Arabic or African name on a white British baby. I would see, for example, Khadija or Tabassum as really weird on a white British girl, but while Maple would also be odd, I'd recognise it as part of an established naming tradition. Names from outside the existing naming tradition are more jarring than rare ones from within it.
This message was edited 2/18/2012, 11:04 AM
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Maybe people are just more stuck on ethnically dividing names where you're from than they are in my circles... People make their choices... I went to school with a Katija when I was in Ont. as a little kid and I have no idea if she had any Arabic roots whatsoever. That was just her name... I was prob'ly an adult or close to it before I knew it even had those roots. When kids grow up with someone with a certain name, they're often more accepting of it than if they don't hear it until they're older. I know people with a blond-haired blue-eyed Aiko. She was born in Japan to American parents and now lives in Canada. I haven't heard of her having any problems with it... and she's not even at the west coast. She's in mid-elementary school now. My friend Sundeia is white and from NZ and she has to tell people how to say or spell her name a fair bit, but once they get it, it's no problem even though her name is Sanskrit... and I know 2 white gals named Chandra as well that I went to school with in Canada. You can segregate names by ethnicity if you so choose, but I'm not about to... esp. when a meaning I want works better namewise in another language.
This message was edited 2/18/2012, 4:54 PM
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