British names and American names

[Truthy]

I'm good, thank you.

 

[Squonk]

Carolina name is not exactly a "state name", but a female form of Charles... like Charlotte.

 

[Traitorfish]

No it's not.

It's making baseless assumptions about a persons character and ability to do work based on their social background, and not on those qualities as they actually exist in the individual. How is that not bigotry?

You're so busy imagining this idealistic class warfare.

I don't understand what you mean here. Like, as a sentence.

I specifically referred to "African" because you originally were the one to associate these names with African American culture. (Go back to the first page).

How on earth did you get from the fact that certain names are associated with African-American culture to assuming that they are intended as romantic pseudo-African names?

My only objective was to show that stupid names are not race linked, regardless of how bizarre that may seem.

Yes, I grasped that particular trite and needless point. I just don't understand what it is intended to prove.

And what study postulates that stupid names are linked with blacks as opposed to uneducated people?

"Stupid names" was an innovation on your part, it has nothing to do with the original study being referenced.

I'm not a republican...

...and this has nothing to do with your political background. Just the fact you jumped to the conclusion that if I say "mamma" I'm referring to black people.

You were doing so in reference to a list of names specifically associated with African-Americans. If you think that your comments were not racially insensitive, because I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, then you're very naive.

Hey, at least we're done mindlessly calling people racist, right?

[Edit: unhelpful comment thought better of.]

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

do Welsh names count as "British", they have very unique names.

 

[dosed150]

do Welsh names count as "British", they have very unique names.

well wales is in britain so i would think so

the current swansea manager has such a welsh name Huw Jenkins, can a name be much more welsh

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

well wales is in britain so i would think so

the current swansea manager has such a welsh name Huw Jenkins, can a name be much more welsh

sounds Welsh, I used to live in Wales, and my friends from their all have Welsh names.

 

[Skwink]

You know, female Russian names are the best. When I get a daughter, she's gonna be named Natasha.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Sorry , still can't work out how to do the nice little YouTube link with the square pic

But this is how we deal with crappy childrens names

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXTngYxm8Bs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

[Dachs]

Incidentally, I liked this thread better when I was talking to myself about Charles Barkley.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I've heard that names from the Hebrew scriptures (like Caleb, Joel, etc) are common in the US but not in the UK.

 

[Dumanios]

I've never known a Joel. And the only Ian I know is part Polish.

 

[Quintillus]

Are all black/dark brown people in America called African-Americans? That might explain part of the misunderstanding.

They are by some people. This can, of course, cause misunderstandings when the person who is being called African-American is actually from the Indian subcontinent and has no African ancestry whatsoever.

I've met a couple people named "Tammy" in Ohio, but I've never liked that name much, either. I do know an Ian (in Ohio), but no Rupert, Neville, Nigel, Herschel, Cletus, Seamus, or Huw. I do know a Joel and a couple Calebs (all stateside). All of them are religious.

 

[Arakhor]

In Britain, we call black people Afro-Caribbean (carri-bee-an) and anyone south of Russia as Asian.

 

[EnglishCrusader]

Sorry , still can't work out how to do the nice little YouTube link with the square pic

But this is how we deal with crappy childrens names

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXTngYxm8Bs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Put everything after the = sign in the URL between brackets.

So for this video it would be:

[Youtube]MXTngYxm8Bs[/Youtube]

 

[MilesGregarius]

I assume anyone named Simon is a Brit.

 

[PhroX]

In Britain, we call black people Afro-Caribbean (carri-bee-an) and anyone south of Russia as Asian.

Well, most black people in Britain are from the Caribbean (and before that Africa), so it rather makes sense. Also, from my experience, "Asian" tends to specifically refer to Indians/Pakistanis. People from further east than there tend to be known as Oriental.

 

[NovaKart]

In the US Asian is more often people from East Asia and for some reason Oriental is un-PC.

 

[Brighteye]

I have a friend called Crystal who recently joined a large City firm and the boss sent an e-mail round ahead of her arrival warning people not to discriminate against her because of her name.

I was shocked. She's from a small village and her parents had no idea about growing naming trends in cities and the US. It's a name, not a CV.

 

[NovaKart]

That is pretty funny, I've met people named Crystal before, it's not terribly unusual. I wonder if people would make jokes like calling her crystal meth, in which case it may have less to do with naming trends.

 

[Traitorfish]

Well, most black people in Britain are from the Caribbean (and before that Africa), so it rather makes sense. Also, from my experience, "Asian" tends to specifically refer to Indians/Pakistanis. People from further east than there tend to be known as Oriental.

In the US Asian is more often people from East Asia and for some reason Oriental is un-PC.

I actually tend to find people from East Asia just being referred to as "East Asian" (in the same way that "South Asian" is specified in the US) for that reason. I think that it's a relatively recent development in the UK, though, so it may not be a universal experience.