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[quote=Anonymous]This is an offshoot of a thread that's currently in the "expectant moms" forum about the name Khalil. There's a small debate going on over there about white/european people using names of other cultures and whether or not this is ok or disrespectful. In this case the name is not just any Arabic name but is the name of a famous poet, Khalil Gibran. The child would be named after the poet but would not have any family or ethnic connection to the poet. So I wanted to open up the discussion here, not specifically around the name Khalil but about naming children names that are from cultures that are not the parents' cultures. Is this cultural appropriation and/or is it "bad"? I guess this isn't exactly "political" but I figured people looking at the "political" board might have interesting perspective about culture. [/quote]
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