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I understand that. That's why I said I wasn't speaking for everyone. I myself have always felt the lack of connection from a "mother culture" in my life from a very young age. That's just me. I do have to say, the description of festivities in your area sounds really interesting.

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But, maybe that is why we have so many place name and new names now. They don't have foreign roots as a first name. That makes them American names, not English or French, or Chinese, etc.

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I won't pretend to be a fan of the names that you mention, but this is a really good point that I hadn't thought of before.

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My point seems to have disintegrated a bit, through no one's fault but my own. Originally my question was something more along the lines of "How far can a white American person go when it comes to adopting names from a foreign/minority culture without offending anyone?" The side of white American-Europeans taking on American names through time or non-white American people taking American/English names is only one side of the coin. Geez, I don't even know if that made sense. I don't think I've confused myself this badly in a long time!