Posted on 09/15/2014 3:34:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Just wondering...how does one juxtapose contrast? And the author has a law degree?
'Athole' seems to be a proper British name (you can google it). The two should get together sometime and exchange anecdotes.
“Black” names are very uncommon here in Canada. Probably because they are better integrated into the mainstream here.
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All six of them?
The actor Archibald Leach was born in England but for some inexplicable reason decided to change his name to Cary Grant.
I read once that there was a governor of Massachusetts whose name was Peabody. Someone claimed there were three places in Massachusetts named for him—Peabody, Marblehead, and Athol.
We actually have a lot of blacks in Canada; descendants of slaves in Nova Scotia, descendants of Americans who made it here via the Underground Railroad, and Caribbeans who started arriving in large numbers in the 1960s. Most blacks here in Toronto are from the latter group. One of the reasons they are so integrated here is that there are no real “ghettos”; it’s easy enough to get around town that even in the worst neigbourhoods here people get away on a daily basis.
my boys have Christian names after Saints, and my daughter has a normal name , unlike what we see today.
I have a friend who became a cop who has arrested his share of people with interesting names. My favorites were Le-a (ledasha, and has already been mentioned) and “female” which was pronounced “fem-a-lee” (and when I explain the pronunciation the dash ‘do be silent’). Well, apparently “female” would fly into a rage whenever someone pronounced her name in the expected manner and she apparently had no clue, even as an adult, why anyone would call her “fe-male”.
Have you ever been in a store and saw their name tags, and then asked how do you pronounce that name because you have never seen it before, only for the woman to reply with some gibberish?
there are two Christian names in there which are my sons name.
Their middle names are also Christian normal names too.
I’d bet your checked airport luggage is less likely to get it’s valuables extracted if the name tag says “Shaneequa”.
I was wondering if that was a typo. I don’t associate Clarence with being a “black” name, even when we have a black supreme court justice who happens to be using it. “Clarice” on the other hand I mentally associate with black women though, fortunately, I don’t particularly associate it with the ghetto.
I have four black children with traditional names...although my oldest was named Morgan (Morgan from King Arthur legends). They have a statement that I have heard....oh she is a Shatiqua...which isn’t a compliment.
I have two black children myself, with traditional names. I looked up Shatiqua, and I think I have one of those, too. Minus the dialect, of course. She’s a good counter to my quiet older daughter.
“Historically and traditionally ? Virtually no one named their daughter that prior to 1984 when the movie “Splash” came out. After that, there was an explosion of “Madisons.” “
That’s right. The supposedly historic names the author mentions aren’t. They are more recent trendy names that were traditionally last names.
When I went to school in the 60’s and 70’s there were:
Marks, Daves, Garys, Petes, Bobs, Toms, Tims, Jims, Eds, Teds, Larrys, Johns, Rogers, Carls, Darryls, Eugenes, Gregs, Pauls, Scotts, Kirks, Charlies, Brads, Dans...
No one had a first name like Conner, no Dylans or Jakes.
The 1984 movie Splash with Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah had a mermaid named Madison. In the movie, since humans can't pronounce her mermaid name, she named herself Madison after Madison Avenue in New York City.
That started the popularity of Madison as a girl's name.
The triplet sistahs down the road are named Januvia, Byetta and Victoza...and babymama is named Etiwanda.
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Right or wrong I think that's how many people perceive it. A name like "Shaneeka" implies to me a leftist upbringing, angry against society and raised with the belief that all whites are prejudice and out to get the blacks. In other words, they probably have chip on their shoulder and will be difficult to get along with.
Buy contrast a black person with a name like "Craig" or "John" or "Lisa" implies someone raised with values like hardwork, politeness etc etc.
Clarence?
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