capodominicano said:
Dammit gotten beaten to the punch :knockedou
First time I read this thread got the exactly same thought but decided not to post due to ..... people possibly over reacting.... I also believe the bad names comes from the folks with lower economic background or country folks.
I agree, although a few upper crust have adopted Anglicisms or Galicisms, is very rare to find a " Saturno Cometa Diaz" around from the upper crust.
capodominicano said:
2 weeks ago on HBO nightstand this comedian (forgot name) was joking about baby names and how there should be a law, Imagine naming a kid with no vowel: mkplgscdph or with 50 Fs: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF...
Several countries do have law that dictate how children should be named, ex: Japan. No way in hell that you can name a child " diablo suzuki" in Japan.
capodominicano said:
I'm a traditional type of guy so a chick with a bad name is somewhat of a turn off. If it's a good name I don't care if it's "latino" or anglosaxon, I mean most asian chicks that I know have "american" names from Amy to Janet, etc. So if the asians don't care about naming their kids Amy rather than a Yin-Xia why should dominicans? Afterall aren't asians in DR naming their kids with Latin names rather than asian names.
Like I've said before, people that are decendants of immigrants, like the Italians, Chinese in the U.S and other countries, usually in the Western Hemisphere, adopted first names of the " mainstream" population. That's why you see " Amy Chang" , because they do it to " fit in", specially Asians that tend to " stick out " more than white/black/mestizo/mulatto masses and even if they are living there for generations, some dummy would always say "
when did you come to the U.S? You speak English pretty well ! " . They do it so they don't look " so alien".
In Asia is a different ballgame. There is no need to " fit in". In the U.S Japanese Americans got names like George Tanaka, but in Japan, everybody got a Yamato name. No Anglicisms, no Galicism, Hispanism, nothing. Only people you see with these first names are the Nikkei immigrants from Peru and Brazil doing the menial jobs, because of what I said of " inclusion" in South America. Native Japanese immediately can label you a Nikkei because you have a name like " Jose Nakayama", and your foreign accent when speaking Japanese, even thou they have the same faces. They suffer lots of discrimination. So " Jose Nakayama" would name his son " Tomiichi Nakayama" and his daughter " Hanako Nakayama" as to " blend in" again into society like his parents did back in Peru. Do you get the drift?
Japanese society is very ethnocentric, is always " group mentality" for everything. By law, everybody " overthere" has to get a Yamato name. Even foreigners that want to naturalize are required by law to get a Yamato name. There is one white guy overthere whose name was David Aldwinclke, when he naturalized he had to change his name into
Arudou Debito
There is another guy from Finland, changed his name to
Marutei Tsurunen. All foreign Sumo wrestlers, even thou they are not citizens, just foreign residents, must adopt a Yamato ring name, like " Akebono, a Hawaian guy.
Back to DR, Pepito Vargas who has been living in a campo all his life, never been out of the island, speaks only Spanish and has been eating platanos all his life, wants to name his son " Jefferson Vargas". Most likely Pepito Vargas doesn't even know what Jefferson means, he just do it because it is a " fad" , his primo in Wash Heights or Providence named his son " Washington Rodriguez". Pepito Vargas is not the son the son of an immigrant like Jose Nakayama from Peru. Pepito Vargas's ancestors have had Spanish names for centuries. There is no need for him to " fit it" so he'll be " less alian"; he is just one more Mulatto from the rest of the majority Mulattoes in DR. He is not like his friend Luisito Wang. There isn't much of a concious of maintaining Hispanic names like in Japan do in maintaining Yamato names.
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