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December 8, 2021 10:51 AM
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Singer/rapper Lil Nas X talking about his birth name [vid], Montero Hill, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in early 2021: Jimmy: So, where does Montero come from?Nas: Ok, it’s slight…
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May 1, 2021 11:46 AM
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A modern story of immigration, assimilation, and the challenges that those with Asian personal names encounter through both, Beth Nguyen retells the account of her family arriving in America from Vietnam in the 1980s and the difficulties she encountered surrounding the general public’s perception of her first name.
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April 5, 2021 3:29 PM
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October 30, 2020 6:39 PM
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The choice of my child's name is just one way I am trying to instill a sense of pride in her Chinese heritage. I want her to embrace it, even though anti-Chinese racism has been on the rise since COVID-19.
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October 17, 2020 7:01 AM
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My mixed-up Anglo-Hispanic name encapsulates my family’s journey, our struggles and our aspirations.
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August 23, 2020 9:32 AM
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A new survey by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) shows that many immigrants in Switzerland favour traditional national names for their children.
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May 18, 2020 4:53 PM
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At first I thought her four names were a beautiful compromise. But at 18 months old, her eyes are bluish-gray, her hair is light brown. While I’ve tried to wrestle with what it means for her to appear so light in a society that hugely privileges whiteness, I’ve grown more uneasy about her name. Her first and last names, the most salient parts, look and sound as white as her features.
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January 21, 2020 5:12 PM
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Finding a baby name for his incoming son that was the right cross of Indian and Canadian was more difficult than he’d imagined, writes Karan Gill
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January 4, 2020 6:51 AM
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“I looked in the audience … and [my mom] kind of cringed,” he said. “And I was like, ‘Dude, what am I doing?’
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October 9, 2019 12:44 PM
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I miss people saying my name correctly ... I have had 14 years of Morag, Maureen, Myreed, Mary, Marie etc.
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August 14, 2019 10:16 AM
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“The court asked me ‘why I wanted to change my name?’ and my answer was simple: ‘I don’t want to change my name, I want to get my name back. I was born with this name and my family named me in Kurdish.”
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July 3, 2019 4:51 AM
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The current refugee/immigrant situation in our country is heartbreaking and appalling and infuriating, if those words were strong enough to describe it, which they are not. I can’t believe we…
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June 5, 2019 4:40 PM
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"Mohammed beliebtester Vorname in Berlin": Diese Schlagzeile wurde in den letzten Tagen international verbreitet und diskutiert.
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November 3, 2021 11:54 AM
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The name helped his family escape prejudice. But for the BBC’s Ben Boulos, it is time for a change.
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April 5, 2021 3:30 PM
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The crux of naming challenges: they're deeply personal + deeply public. Thoughts on navigating names as an immigrant and much mor
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March 22, 2021 5:30 PM
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Sometimes just being a Linda is the best reason to celebrate.
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October 24, 2020 4:35 PM
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Since the beginning of time, people have immigrated from place to place in the hopes of finding a life that gives them the opportunities that are more suited to their particular needs, whether those are religion, career, education, or really anything else. Sometimes, their names are the only things that follow them int
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August 31, 2020 10:00 AM
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What accounts for name choices in a transnational context? What does the choice of ethnic or English names reveal about global identities and the desire to fit into a new culture?
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June 27, 2020 6:37 AM
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Educator and podcaster Jennifer Gonzalez has done a fantastic job on this subject, and she has come up with three different categories of mispronouncers, which I’d like to describe and build upon. Most of us have been one of them, at one time or another.
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May 18, 2020 4:48 PM
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“Ayyy, I already told you, your name is too long! We don’t go by two names here and we don’t go by two last names. Pick a name. Maria or Edith. And as far as last names, you are Espinosa. We don’t use your mother’s last name. So what’s it going to be?” When we…
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January 7, 2020 1:51 PM
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O blog dos nomes portugueses de A a Z. Nomes portugueses e Nomes brasileiros. Significados. Nomes antigos e modernos, rankings, debates!
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November 13, 2019 1:19 PM
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Reflexão sobre a influência dos fluxos migratórios nos nomes portugueses.
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October 8, 2019 6:06 PM
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Through names, we reveal ourselves to the world. For those of us who are mixed race or otherwise between cultures, deciding how to present them is a way to confirm or complicate the stories told by our physical appearance.
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August 14, 2019 9:51 AM
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The voice I hear in my head that tells me to introduce myself one way instead of another is the same one that tells me not to wear Indian clothes or speak Hindi in public
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June 12, 2019 5:14 PM
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Lola is the first born British-Nigerian in her family. In this candid conversation she asks her mum why she was never taught their mother tongue.
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