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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