Three NBC colleagues talk about where their unique names come from and open up about their experiences with name discrimination. NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah reports.
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Elizabeth Warren didn't use her Fake Indian name
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Kamala Harris she's married to Doug me off
Unique names? No. Just cultural, often times non-white names. What a passive way to frame race and identity.
These people with weird names should whine to their parents instead of trying to force feed us what their names mean – who cares cause everyone has a story.
Lets not talk about thems gender but thems name
Unusual names sometimes hinder business: anything customer-facing. It’s just a hassle and takes time and effort to, for example, ask several times to pronounce or even spell out an unusual name.
It was not uncommon in years past for people to change or modify their name when they immigrated.
Some still do as a way of “greasing the wheels”.
I don’t understand why a parent would hinder their child’s opportunities by giving them a very unusual name, or odd spelling of a usual name.
This is simply a practical matter. Business moves fast and life is complicated enough.
Silly names equal better job opportunities
Because names like Craphonso and LaShitonya just ooze class and intelligence.
Name discrimination, yea ok. What a crock of 💩
I don't think names like these get as much social discrimination and visceral hatred and judgment as more "distinctly African American" names. I wish that perspective would have been included here. It was kind of a missed opportunity to not include the names that people in America tend to have the most negative connotation about and reaction to. Some people hear a name like "Shaniqua" or "DaMarcus" and immediately get a very negative impression in their mind about the person's intelligence and work ethic. I don't think the same happens when they hear "Violeta" or "Junghun." I do know that any "ethnic" or unique name has people misspelling it and mispronouncing it, but the story just feels incomplete to me without including African American names and how those are judged as "ghetto" and "made up" and so on.
My daughter is one of these people too(not sure about discrimination though)
Her name is Aljexi(Alexie with a silent J.
A unique name for a unique birthday and named after Alexie Kovalev who played for the 1994 New York Rangers.