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[quote=Anonymous]Is it the name itself you object to? Because it sounds totally fine. If you hate it, of course, that is legitimate; or if you don't want to follow their tradition because it's not yours, also legitimate. But if you don't hate it and you just worry about the kid being teased, I think that is unlikely. My 4 and 7 year olds have gone to school with kids who have all sorts of names. One kid in my son's class has the name of a gun manufacturer. I think it's terrible, but the kids think it's normal. Multiple kids in my older son's class have non-English names that have not been Anglicized. And it's fine. I mistook one name for a girl's name - it ended in "a" which reads female to most English speakers -- and my son corrected me, and that was it. Not a big deal at all.

I wouldn't think Hani is so bad. I went to school with a Fadi who pronounced it "Fatti" rather than "Fahdi" and I thought that wasn't great, but he said he never got teased, and this was back in the non-PC 80s/90s. If Fadi doesn't get teased, Hani won't. [/quote]

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