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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is my kid's name. He's white, we are Catholic, and named our son for St. Francis Xavier. There's literally a Catholic University bearing this name. [b]Your husband may be using the cultural appropriation thing as an excuse because he doesn't like the name???[/b]

For what it's worth, the name is not complicated at all. Nobody makes fun of him. However, he does get called X or X-Man by many people (which I think is just fine). Lots of people also mispronounce his name (ex-zav-yer) instead of simply Zav-yer. For the same reason we don't say ex-zie-la-phone, Xavier should not be pronounced ex-zav-yer. But lots of names get mispronounced, so whatever.[/quote]
I agree with the bolded. If the original post is even real, I think the husband is using the whole cultural appropriation thing as an excuse when, in reality, he simply doesn't like the name. Most men (in general - I realize there are exceptions to every rule) do not spend time thinking about things like cultural appropriation (especially when it comes to baby names). That's more of a woman's concern/thought process.[/quote]

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