How important are names to preserving culture/history?

[Remote]

So I'm looking around my social media feeds and lately I've noticed quite a few births and birthday parties.

But one of the things I've also noticed is how many of my latino friends and family have given their kids these awfully "white" names.

Now to be clear, parents have the right to name their kids whatever they want, but there's just something awkward about a Dominican kid named Tyler or Puerto Rican kid named Logan.

Maybe names don't mean anything...or maybe it's your last name that matters since it's what gets passed on to the next generation.... but I just find this shyt to be weird, brehs.

You don't see too many Irish kids being named Alcides.
That's all I'm saying.



Do you think what you name your kids matters?

 

[Remote]

So it's just me then.

 

[okra]

i hate anglo names, theyre so ugly.

 

[Remote]

i hate anglo names, theyre so ugly.

Lol I wasn't going that far. But I mean, if you saw an Ethiopian dude named Ichiro, it'd be weird, no?

 

[okra]

Lol I wasn't going that far. But I mean, if you saw an Ethiopian dude named Ichiro, it'd be weird, no?

it is werid but it isnt an ugly name

 

[Stay Seeking]

*paging DeShawn, Jamel, LaKeisha, Omarion, Jaquan, all the meeks, leeks, taes, u'ans, wans etc*

 

[MercuryHayes]

How this thread is not about LAST NAMES is beyond me.


Because your real last name is Johnson, Smith, Jackson right?

 

[MAKAVELI25]

*paging DeShawn, Jamel, LaKeisha, Omarion, Jaquan, all the meeks, leeks, taes, u'ans, wans etc*

Ha

 

[Trajan]

but there's just something awkward about a Dominican kid named Tyler or Puerto Rican kid named Logan.

But I hear you. It's trading off your history and culture to assimilate into the culture that's currently winning.

People used to do that with the latinised names when Rome was the world's superpower.

 

[Primetime21]

How this thread is not about LAST NAMES is beyond me.


Because your real last name is Johnson, Smith, Jackson right?

People don't have a choice in what last name they are born with, you can certainly control the first name of your child.

 

[Remote]

People don't have a choice in what last name they are born with, you can certainly control the first name of your child.

Very few people do change their last name. But you're right.

 

[Stay Seeking]

How this thread is not about LAST NAMES is beyond me.


Because your real last name is Johnson, Smith, Jackson right?

Most nikkas out here spending stacks on Jordans, and not research into their origins though. How do you explain that?

 

[MercuryHayes]

People don't have a choice in what last name they are born with, you can certainly control the first name of your child.

You control all of that shyt fam

Most nikkas out here spending stacks on Jordans, and not research into their origins though. How do you explain that?

Can't be mad at someone who is unaware.

 

[Stay Seeking]

Can't be mad at someone who is unaware.

You sound like an enabler

 

[MercuryHayes]

You sound like an enabler

Are you changing your last name, black man?