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Theoretically, what if I named my child with a foreign but otherwise normal names (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1361025

Idk, something chill like Hakim Shaoqi... or Mikhail Sorensen

Both in different scripts (arabic et chinese) or (Cyrlic and Roman)

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[–] pigginz@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago

From the tone of the post and the choice of words ("foreign but otherwise normal name" really?) I'm going to guess you're a white westerner?

[–] Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Normally a name is something meaningful, it becomes a person’s identity, and it also becomes their first impression.

So when your child hears the their name, what kind of perception will they have of themselves? When their peers and teachers hear the name, what kind of impression will them have of your child?

Ultimately, will your child find a space where they will be accepted for the name they are given? If you give them a name that doesn’t fit with neither the culture and upbringing that you can provide nor the culture and upbringing that their environment can provide, then that’s not really doing them any favours.

So if your entire family and your spouse’s family has abrahamic names, but they have a Chinese name, while attending school with predominantly Greek children then they will have some trouble identifying not only with their family but also the institution.