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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I try to never mispronounce ANYONE's name, regardless of race.  I may think "Oh you poor thing" when I meet a black girl named Dy'mond Kulture but would never say anything to a child.  [b]If I were close friends with Dy'mond and she brought up her name, I might ask if she's ever thought of having it legally changed.  
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I work in HR and recruiting and don't judge based on name. I judge based on eye contact, fit of clothing (not brands, but are the pants sagging, are b**bs showing), mumbling, etc.  THOSE are the things that tell me DeMarcus has eaten fast food for dinner and regularly had the electricity turned off and many "fathers" traipsed through his apartment.  [/quote]

If you became close friends with someone, I would hope that you would value them for who they are and maybe even come to appreciate their unusual name.  I have several white friends who willingly chose weird/unusual spellings for their names as a mark of individuality and I have never, not once, told them they should alter how they choose to spell their own name.

I am so sad to hear that you work in HR and think you can tell what people have eaten for diner (!!!!) and that you would refuse to hire someone who has grown up poor or with family dysfunction.  I know surgeons and lawyers who grew up poor, some of them even, horrors, had the electricity turned off.  I can understand people need to dress a certain way for interviews but the fact that you are writing people off for jobs based of these kinds of gross assumptions is poor practice on your part.[/quote]

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