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I grew up in America and I definitely won’t do this. A lot of Indian names aren’t that hard, people can spend a few seconds and learn
I think they just want to avoid the hassle of teaching people. I didn’t do that and know a lot of people who didn’t either
Reading this makes me sad. The colonised mentality is still too real, adapting to names that “they” can pronounce.
If they can pronounce Tchaikovsky with out any problem, it’s on them for not even trying to say ours properly.
#sayMyName
It's just not a colonized mentality. I grew up in India and went to a cosmopolitan private school with students from diverse backgrounds.
My ethnic sounding name was repeatedly butchered and made fun off because it was not mainstream enough like a Rahul or Deepak
Do what you need to OP. There will be judgment either way. Get a hard to pronounce name for your kid and they’ll go through middle school hating it depending on how diverse or not diverse it is.
Or get them an anglicized name and you’ll get judgment from desis with how terrible you are to take the white mans name.
While not exactly the same problem for Indians a David or James resume gets picked up over a shaniqua or jamal resume - tons of studies on it.
It really doesn’t matter. Chose your poison.
Remember they need to live with that name their whole life not you, do what’s right for THEM not you, not your country, not your spirituality .
I'm assuming kids/teens dont want to deal with the discomfort of saying their birth names out loud over and over until it is pronounced correctly.
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I think we should all make an effort to get those around us to pronounce our names properly.
It’s painful, yes. But we will be doing future generations a favor.
Why should we adjust our names for other?
If I can learn to pronounce Eastern European and Hispanic names, then surely others can learn Desi names. I did not change my name, and am somewhat fortunate that my name while not the easiest to pronounce is also not as tough as some names. For our children we picked names that were easier to pronounce globally, yet were known/acceptable back home also. I refuse to take on a common American name in lieu of a native desi name, even as a nickname!
Chief
Maybe it’s getting old but I pretty much stopped trying to shape my name to the audience, which of course makes it difficult for some people to say my name. I also take an effort based view of people trying to say my name, they’ll butcher it, but a lot of people try or ask which I appreciate and that’s good enough considering it literally has a sound that’s not in English.
Long way of saying, don’t overthink it either way.
My birth first name is 14 letter long. No way that is going to work... I shortened it for ease
Chief
Among South Asian Muslim names:
Muhammad: ofcourse, Mo 🙄🙄🙄 also for Murtaza.
Zeeshan: Zeeshawn
Salman: Sal
Syed: Sid
The list goes on 🤢🤮
Names are butchered regardless of nationality...
eg: Parmesan to parmeshwaran
Arnold Schwarzenegger to woh terminator wala bandha
😂😂
Can you do a name change ? Then for all official purposes the new name is the legal name
There’s names like Neil (Neel), Dev, Maya that tend to work both ways. And definitely common in young GenX to older millennial desis.
The thing is Dev is pronounced as dev in developer not Dev as in Dev Anand.