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Isn't there a thing called "cultural appreciation"?  When you appreciate something from another culture, you might want to adopt it (be it food, dance, karate, names, whatever).

We need to stop arguing about these inconsequential things that ultimately cause only harm.  I'm certainly not afraid of people becoming homogenous.  Look, when you don't adapt, you die.  That's just basic stuff.  We live in a very interdependent world.  Do you wish to isolate yourself?  Why?  Why is it necessary to be ethnocentric?  Ethnocentricity is like inbreeding.  Without fresh blood and ideas, you just wither.  America is great because we are constantly injecting fresh ideas and using/remaking them.  
 
Honestly, names are usually about admiration of something about the name (be it the sound, someone else who had the name, etc.).  Nobody owns them.  When I hear an unusual name, I am intrigued and pleased.  I certainly would never feel like I can take away someone's right to name their child.  We are enslaving people's minds.  Not good.  Freeeeeeedom!

And, sincerely, humans are creative.  The mixing of peoples is a normal thing and will just make us learn and become better.    [/quote]

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