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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are members of an ethnic minority and [b]I regard teachers who refuse to pronounce/learn my child's name as engaging in a form of micro-aggression.[/b]  Here's an interesting article to read:
https://www.academia.edu/192884/Kohli_R._and_Sol%C3%B3rzano_D._2012_Teachers_please_learn_our_names_Racial_Microagressions_and_the_K-12_Classroom._Race_Ethnicity_and_Education

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I've got a last name literally no one has ever pronounced right on the first try, and most people don't [i]ever[/i] pronounce right. My biracial kids have non-American, unusual names and even close friends sometimes say them wrong. DH's name is so impossible to pronounce that he goes by a completely different name in America.

[b]It's not a microaggression.[/b] It's people trying to do their best with something linguistically unfamiliar. The more we encourage people to become familiar with our ethnic names, the better they will do. Attacking people who mistakenly say our names wrong will just make them defensive and make them dislike foreign-sounding names. I prefer to live with a more generous spirit and assume they mean well and are trying.

And don't forget: native English speakers can't hear or distinguish some sounds at all. That's some of the problem right there, and being angry about it doesn't rewire others' brains or make them neurologically able to hear/reproduce those sounds![/quote]
I think both of you paint too broad a brush.  Sometimes it IS microaggression and sometimes not.  [/quote]

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