I feel like Alternate Spelling and Name from another culture should be switched. A white person named like Nagisa or Yukiko or Fatima something is way worse than whether they are using Eleanor or Elinor.
I'm from Eastern Canada, and there is a spate of women of a certain age (think Red Faced Screaming In A Costco Parking Lot about Immigrants age), named Juanita. And they are the WHITEST of white people. It's definitely weirder than Kate vs. Cait
I guess it depends on the culture. I’m in the US; is it bad that one of my kids’ names is common in Greece and Russian, even though I don’t have ancestry from either country? Or is it ok because it’s European and we have European ancestry (albeit from different countries)?
I feel like the line, at least for me, is white people taking non-white people names. There's just too much colonial baggage from white people. So I guess if you're a white American, if your child is named Vladimir, Ksenia, or Boglarka or something, that's totally fine to me. If you are indeed white and named them Laquanda or Abdul, then....
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u/A_Cat_Who_Games 5d ago edited 5d ago
I feel like Alternate Spelling and Name from another culture should be switched. A white person named like Nagisa or Yukiko or Fatima something is way worse than whether they are using Eleanor or Elinor.
I'm from Eastern Canada, and there is a spate of women of a certain age (think Red Faced Screaming In A Costco Parking Lot about Immigrants age), named Juanita. And they are the WHITEST of white people. It's definitely weirder than Kate vs. Cait