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HelpRe: Honest Question About Cultural Appropriation and Names
in reply to a message by RuralRuna
Picking a name for your child is one of the most important decision you’ll ever make for you child. Any namenerd or parent in general would agree.
With names, there is such a beautiful variety of options, why limit yourself to only one culture or family names? There’s absolutely nothing wrong with family names or choosing names of your culture/ethnicity, but I’m just saying.
I would be surprised if a heard a white girl named Keisha, Imani, or Latasha. Just like I would be surprised if I heard a white boy with the name Amari, Jamal, or Marquis considering these are common names in African culture. But I wouldn’t get all of my other black friends to gang up on them.
I think the main reason why people use cultural appropriation as an excuse is because when they use it, they might get teased or bullied for their culture, however if a white person uses it, all of a sudden they’re a god. Or, at least that’s how they perceive it.
My name, Isis, is obviously an Ancient Egyptian name. As far as I’m aware I have no Egyptian ancestry in my family, but my father believes that is our roots. He studied Ancient Egypt for years, we even went to Egypt with my step-mother. As he named me after the Isis Papers, the book literally talks about white supremacy, the author chose Isis because she was the most important goddess of Ancient Egypt, Isis admired truth & justice and made truth and justice stronger than silver and gold. Is that cultural appropriation? I’ll let you be the judge.
To put it in short: You can choose whatever name you want for your child. It probably best you look more into the culture and etymology behind it. In all honesty I probably wouldn’t listen to society that much anyhow considering there are a lot of inconsistencies with political correctness to say the least.
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With names, there is such a beautiful variety of options, why limit yourself to only one culture or family names? There’s absolutely nothing wrong with family names or choosing names of your culture/ethnicity, but I’m just saying.
I would be surprised if a heard a white girl named Keisha, Imani, or Latasha. Just like I would be surprised if I heard a white boy with the name Amari, Jamal, or Marquis considering these are common names in African culture. But I wouldn’t get all of my other black friends to gang up on them.
I think the main reason why people use cultural appropriation as an excuse is because when they use it, they might get teased or bullied for their culture, however if a white person uses it, all of a sudden they’re a god. Or, at least that’s how they perceive it.
My name, Isis, is obviously an Ancient Egyptian name. As far as I’m aware I have no Egyptian ancestry in my family, but my father believes that is our roots. He studied Ancient Egypt for years, we even went to Egypt with my step-mother. As he named me after the Isis Papers, the book literally talks about white supremacy, the author chose Isis because she was the most important goddess of Ancient Egypt, Isis admired truth & justice and made truth and justice stronger than silver and gold. Is that cultural appropriation? I’ll let you be the judge.
To put it in short: You can choose whatever name you want for your child. It probably best you look more into the culture and etymology behind it. In all honesty I probably wouldn’t listen to society that much anyhow considering there are a lot of inconsistencies with political correctness to say the least.
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing all day."
Rate my personal name list please :) https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/217493
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