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Help[Opinions] Re: Xavier?
in reply to a message by Andromache
Sure, it's Basque, but Tyrone is Irish Gaelic, and that didn't keep it from being a very black name at one point. Not saying I think that Xavier is black, as I don't, just that the fact that it's Basque is not the reason it isn't.
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I think it's very much a location thing. In the US, French names are in vogue for blacks. When I realized we had an employee named Pierre, I knew without seeing him that he was black. Same with an employee named Jacques. I'm sure this would not be correctly assumed in Europe. It's a mystery as to why black people started to favor French names.
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