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Without commenting on the political aspects of your blog, I would like to comment on your mention of naming kids. When my grandparents emigrated to Canada, the intake officials very frequently and without consent changed immigrates' names because 'nobody could pronounce them'...... that is......nobody of British or Scottish heritage. I wonder if that happened in the States too. Also, when I attended teachers' college in the early 60's, the officials in charge pressured those with 'ethnic names'...meaning not British or Scottish to change or shorten their names because 'the children wouldn't be able to pronounce them.' Now those types of happenings are extremely frowned upon and just don't happen....thank goodness!! 
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Hi Liszt, I rather doubt that Africans who arrived in N.America as slaves came with the 'rather aristocratic' names you mention...... which leads one to wonder [at least me] what their real names were.
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I think a real name is any name your parents chose to give you. 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.' -Shakespeare  It just occurred to me that I may not understand because this is an American issue.....sorry.
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6/4/2015 7:25 am |
I wish someone had changed my name when i got off the Gen CC Ballou in Halifax. Just imagine the grief going through life with the name 'Lech'.
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6/4/2015 7:26 am |
Women are the ones who don't want honesty.
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