Why do Africans give themselves English names?
Why do Africans give themselves English names?
Dominic Diaz
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Austin Smith
Like Muhammad?
Josiah Sanders
Kek
Nolan Morris
Like Robert and Jacob.
Jayden Fisher
But my name is Eduardo Lopez...
Grayson Sanders
LOS
Mason Baker
FORSAKEN
Dylan Ward
Because of the missionaries that made them all convert to christianity. While it's fun to poke at religions. You see all do the same.
Don't you think it's barbaric to force people to convert and give them names? Jacob, John, Mathew. Oh but nope not christians am I right bois?
Ayden Campbell
This.
Religion play a important role in the names of a country.
Dylan Moore
+moderately well of Africans probably want their kids to be more westernised
and they'll probably use biblical names because they're christian as fuck
Ryan Cruz
Christianity and the whole "I'm called X but you can use my baptism name.".
Some shame over backwards indigenous Names. Wanting a modern name.
It all varies based off the society and the person.
Jason White
a lot of the continent is gonna go through some major cultural shifts because there's a fuckton of cultural, linguistic, religious hangups.
Liam Cox
because they take their master name
Ian Davis
Abhorrent post
Noah Wright
Why do Anglos give themselves Hebrew names?
Levi Rogers
Jacob is Jewish name, user)
Benjamin Robinson
My name's Jacob and I'm not Jewish.
Joseph Turner
Even my name is really Greek
John Foster
In america. Yes.
In brazil they where given generic surnames. Mostly related to jungle like "Silva" (latin for forest), and tree names "Oliveira", "Pereira", "Carvalho", "Salgueiro", etc.
Santos was a popular surname for converted one too. It seems to look that this practice is inherit from Iberia, where a lot of people care those names and where born in slavery.
Caleb Clark
go and brush up your history.
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"You are still called by your slave-masters' names. By rights, by international rights, you belong to the white man of America. He knows that. You have never gotten out of the shackles of slavery. You are still in them."
Chase Jackson
The hilarious thing is when latin americans do it, like being called Wilson Ford Sanches Lopes
Levi Williams
Lol what? give a quick look in the most popular baby names from the south america. Most of them are "traditional" biblical jewish names. The rest are football players and actress...
Jonathan Bennett
You mean they don't name themselves after Simpsons characters?
Jayden Garcia
Nigga, dominicans, colombians and venezuelans love to name their kids with the most retarded and weird names I've ever seen. It's like they have a contest or something.
Mason Gray
Fuck off you utter clown we're talking about Africans.