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Help[Opinions] Re: Thoughts on mixed origin names in fiction?
in reply to a message by RoxStar
Yeah honestly I do that a lot XD I like having every name be meaningful and symbolic—names whose meanings form sentences or things like that—so I end up with a lot of really weird combos lmao
I definitely want to keep doing that, but your point about ‘all ethnicities [being] equally represented’ in the name was something I was concerned about, since most mixed race/nationality families don’t do that, and will just have their last name with the given names of the kids match the dominant culture of the country they’re living in, maybe with a MN or alternate name to pay respect to their original culture, so these names might feel unrealistic and hokey, and overly simplifies that experience 🤔
Anyway thank you for the input!
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Aspiring writer—I like odd names too much (◡‿◡✿)
I definitely want to keep doing that, but your point about ‘all ethnicities [being] equally represented’ in the name was something I was concerned about, since most mixed race/nationality families don’t do that, and will just have their last name with the given names of the kids match the dominant culture of the country they’re living in, maybe with a MN or alternate name to pay respect to their original culture, so these names might feel unrealistic and hokey, and overly simplifies that experience 🤔
Anyway thank you for the input!
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Aspiring writer—I like odd names too much (◡‿◡✿)
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