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HelpAngus with an Italian surname
My Australian friend married an Italian man last year, and has just had their first baby boy named Angus Hamish.
I don't mind the names Angus or Hamish, but both are very Scottish-sounding (as his mum's grandparents are Scottish), and his surname is very Italian sounding.
Somehow the combination does not go well, WDYT?
I don't mind the names Angus or Hamish, but both are very Scottish-sounding (as his mum's grandparents are Scottish), and his surname is very Italian sounding.
Somehow the combination does not go well, WDYT?
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It does seem a little out of place, but as Chrisell said, here in Australia it's very multi-cultural, so all sorts of names are put together. Personally I would have gone with something a little less Scottish. I think one of the names would have been fine, but both is a bit much.
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So he's a Scottish-Italian baby with a Scottish fn and an Italian ln? What's the problem here? It seems like your friend and her husband gave their child a meaningful name that really reflects his heritage, and that's a good thing.
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What's so weird about a person with Scottish-Italian heritage having a Scottish-Italian name? I generally don't really understand the problem people have with mixing ethnicies anyways. It just reeks of cultural/ethnic purism, which I'm definitely not a fan of.
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My new response to the inevitable "But mixing ethnicities sounds baaaaaaaad!" comment is this:
If it's good enough for a college professor called Mei-Ling Velasquez-Sepulveda, it's good enough for everyone else, too.
Being, say, Angus del Pizzo isn't going to keep a person from being successful in life, despite what people might think. I think the combination of Scottish Italian (or Culture Other Culture in general) is perfectly fine, and I can't help but see xenophobia in people who think otherwise.
As for the names themselves, while I like Angus a lot, I think Hamish is blegh.
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If it's good enough for a college professor called Mei-Ling Velasquez-Sepulveda, it's good enough for everyone else, too.
Being, say, Angus del Pizzo isn't going to keep a person from being successful in life, despite what people might think. I think the combination of Scottish Italian (or Culture Other Culture in general) is perfectly fine, and I can't help but see xenophobia in people who think otherwise.
As for the names themselves, while I like Angus a lot, I think Hamish is blegh.
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This message was edited 2/15/2008, 6:24 AM
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Well . . .
. . . being Australian, this is nothing at all surprising to me. We're a multi-cultural society and you see all sorts of first names with all sorts of surnames. A little Angus Italiano (to pull up an Italian surname at random) running around a pre-school wouldn't even make me blink twice. I'm used to it lol.
. . . being Australian, this is nothing at all surprising to me. We're a multi-cultural society and you see all sorts of first names with all sorts of surnames. A little Angus Italiano (to pull up an Italian surname at random) running around a pre-school wouldn't even make me blink twice. I'm used to it lol.
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Ditto
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