New Post
Search
Helpdo you know any Kohanim Jews?
in reply to a message by bananarama
Because if you do, it would be interesting to know what they really think.
I am terribly irritated when white people randomly use Indian tribe names as first names. Dakota, Cheyenne, they're pretty popular across the board now, but stuff like Lakota, Sioux and Cherokee seem to be tryndee only among white people who have little or no connection to those cultures. "I named my daughter Cherokee Rose because we're like, part Cherokee." (It's *always* part Cherokee, not part Tlingit or part Zuni; Cherokee seems to be almost a synonym in these people's minds for "Native American.") Yeah, well, I am an actual Cherokee, grew up around other actual Cherokees, and I never once met a Cherokee child named Cherokee/ I don't think many Cherokee people feel the need to advertise their ethnicity, which is after all, not anything they had any kind of control over anyway. Most of the people I see using that name, the only part of them that's Cherokee is the part of their butt that touches the seat of their Jeep. You don't see people going around naming their kids stuff liek Japanese, Polish or Slovenian, do you?
Beyond that, some first names when paired with surnames of an obviously very different culture, can look pretty laughable. Mary Bridget Rosenberg, Mohammed O'Houlihan, Juan Manuel Yamamoto, Pierre-Jacques Washburn... they're just funny and mismatched.
I am terribly irritated when white people randomly use Indian tribe names as first names. Dakota, Cheyenne, they're pretty popular across the board now, but stuff like Lakota, Sioux and Cherokee seem to be tryndee only among white people who have little or no connection to those cultures. "I named my daughter Cherokee Rose because we're like, part Cherokee." (It's *always* part Cherokee, not part Tlingit or part Zuni; Cherokee seems to be almost a synonym in these people's minds for "Native American.") Yeah, well, I am an actual Cherokee, grew up around other actual Cherokees, and I never once met a Cherokee child named Cherokee/ I don't think many Cherokee people feel the need to advertise their ethnicity, which is after all, not anything they had any kind of control over anyway. Most of the people I see using that name, the only part of them that's Cherokee is the part of their butt that touches the seat of their Jeep. You don't see people going around naming their kids stuff liek Japanese, Polish or Slovenian, do you?
Beyond that, some first names when paired with surnames of an obviously very different culture, can look pretty laughable. Mary Bridget Rosenberg, Mohammed O'Houlihan, Juan Manuel Yamamoto, Pierre-Jacques Washburn... they're just funny and mismatched.
Archived Thread - replies disabled
1