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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tend to judge people who are 100% white read who choose foreign names from another culture to be different. Liam, Siobhan, Eustatia, etc. [/quote]

White doesn't mean American, or vice versa. Liam and Siobhan are names from a white culture. Plus people marry people from different cultural backgrounds, so you don't know. You also don't know how many generations removed a person is from an immigrant -- many seemingly assimilated Americans have immigrant parents and are still very connected to countries of origin and choosing a name from those countries makes more sense than choosing something that feels more quintessentially American.

That said, I have known some white people who chose Indian names for their kids in the last 10 years and I absolutely think it was about choosing a name that was "different" and also wanting to capture a sort of globalist sentiment, but it now reads pretty colonial to me. I think it would be strange to be a white kid with an Indian name. So even I have my limits, though generally I try to give people the benefit of the doubt with naming their kids.[/quote]

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