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choosing your own name should be the norm (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by AlicePraxis@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I think that in a rational society everyone should feel free to choose their name, and doing so should be a normal and expected rite of passage.

It makes way more sense to choose the sound people make when they refer to you, than having your parents choose it for you before you're even a person yet.

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[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In Worst Korea at about 10 or 11 years old kids choose their "English name" for foreigners to use. This is terrible in theory because of the colonial nature of refusing to pronounce Korean names properly, but hilarious in practice because it means you meet kids with names like "chocolate" or "cake" because it's something they like.

[–] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Asian people solidarity trans people: having inspired English names

Partner knew two Chinese dudes in college who roomed together and chose the names Action and Lancelot. Hard to beat that probably.

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm imagining a Chinese cartoon about an American guy named Action Lancelot who rides a motorcycle and eats nothing but cheeseburgers.

[–] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Action Lancelot and the Adventures of Burgerlandia

[–] D61@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

NES game Clash at Demonhead has the main character's name as "BANG"

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

I mean they had some terrible ones as well. The Korean woman who first explained it to me had chosen "Elizabeth" after the fucking Queen, so we all just used her Korean name instead.

[–] Sinistar@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of Starcraft handles being mostly one syllable English words - Flash, Rain, Queen, and so on.

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most Koreans I knew chose from the 10th most popular to 30th most popular white people names, and that's it. So like Brian, Amy, Emily. Except for one guy who just picked a Chinese-sounding name that sounded like a Mortal Kombat character, because he could. Like I don't wanna dox myself but it might as well have been Chang Tsung, It was pretty badass tbh

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Being in western communities with high numbers of Asians, I remember the name "kevin" a lot in the 90s