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[quote=Anonymous]I read this completely differently. I read: she is visiting Africa for some time and wants to give her child a "nickname" for his new little friends to use. I don't see it as appropriation or racism. I work at a university and it isn't unusual for the Chinese kids to pick an "American name" and use it like a middle name. It's not "appropriation". There are many sounds in Chinese I cannot make properly. One of my students told me that when her name is said improperly by people with an American accent it sounds like a bad word. Another girl I knew had a Chinese name that sounded like Shi-Ting. She went by "Sandie". I agree that an "African" name is going to be location dependent and for any sort of real help, she'd need to be more specific about where she was going. But it would be nice to know if your kids' name sounded okay in the local language. That's not racist. [/quote]
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