It's the name poll!

[conuly]

Abdul has a relative, an uncle or something, named Cupid. Every time I hear this, I remember the guy I knew at PS 188 named Eros.

So...

Which is worse? Cupid-rhymes-with-stupid or Eros-rhymes-with-gross? Or the classic Jeremy-sounds-like-germy?

Comments

[eofs.livejournal.com]

I'm not denying you had those experiences, but I was offended that you characterised the whole UK by them. Where I have grown up, and where I now study, language like that (if present) would be taken as very offensive.

I was also offended by "there didn't seem to be much tolerance for diversity" Of course, I went to a school where Christianity was the third religion, behind Islam and Hinduism. Obivously you having been in London will have given you a different perspective - as one of the most multicultural cities in the world, there are going to be tensions between the different nationalities (and of course there are many more young first generation immigrants there than elsewhere.) Yes, there are racist people over here - we call them the British National Party. There are also xenophobic and Eurosceptic people. But I would never characterise the entire United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland based on them.

Plus I just don't see what any of it has to do with the fact that a kid with a name like Apple or Buddy or Rainbow or Cupid would probably get a bit of a tough time at school. If I had been saying Indian/Pakistani parents get problems for calling their kids Priya or Nitant or Dharmesh or Dimple or Sukvir then I could understand where you're coming from. But right now tensions between ethnicities seem kind of tangenital.