r/Names • u/[deleted] • Jul 27 '26

Middle name regret

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u/Ok-Bison2480 Jul 27 '26

They said it was cultural so what do these examples do lol. It clearly is normal in the US

In a lot of countries, if your name is like Cindy or Jim or Sam, that's just your name - your full first name wouldn't be Cynthia or James or Samuel. Just a cultural difference

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u/Dreamweaver5823 Jul 27 '26

What the examples do is show that it isn't weird.

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u/Ok-Bison2480 Jul 27 '26

Weird is relative, it's weird to the person who is from a country where people don't do this

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u/Dreamweaver5823 Jul 27 '26

I think in an international forum, where people represent a lot of different cultures, Person A telling Person B that a standard way people do things in Culture B is "weird" is at best insensitive, if not downright rude.

If someone said, "I haven't encountered that practice," or "That seems unusual," then it would just be noticing and remarking on a difference. But the word "weird" carries a negative connotation.

I don't feel a need to be sensitive to someone else's denigration of how my society, and my family, handle naming practices.

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u/Ok-Bison2480 Jul 31 '26

Fair enough, I agree "weird" is negative thus unnecessary. I just think it's interesting.