La Queisha? She can be found in droves in any American shit hole.Andy is exactly right. Adopting a common name is a indicator that you want to integrate. Being a native of a culture but using an exotic name indicates a wish for alienation from mainstream culture. I still don't get why French-sounding names are sp popular with blacks.Urban blacks are not credited with much education
But they do come up with original names
The best that highly educated whites can come up with are John, James, Theresa, Mary
But that is a negative. It's a fact, that easier to say names, that are common to American culture, naturally get hired more than crazy names no one can say.
This is why you see many Asians come to the US, and change their name to something people can say.
I knew a girl whose Asian name was Weichun. Way-Choon. Her name here in the US, was "Jessica".
She had no problem landing a job and making friends in the US.
This is normal and natural.
People that come here, and try and blend in with society do better, than those who go out of their way to be counter-cultural.
And this is true of all people, not just blacks. White people that try and buck the social norms, tend to do poorly.
We have a white girl here at this company. She had long blonde hair, and came in working her butt off. She got promoted several times, lead tech, then Engineer in training and so on.
Then she cut all her hair off, got some piercings in her nose, dyed her hair black, and started dressing like a witch from a B-rated movie. The everyone who wanted her to join their team, stopped asking her to join. They even tried at one point, to put her back in the lab, but she refused to leave the engineering group.
She still doesn't seem to have any idea why her upward momentum stopped.
The same is true in call countries, and all cultures.
If I go live in japan [sic], I'll have a harder time getting a job, if I go by the name Andrew. If I changed my name to Haruto in Japan, I would have a better chance of being hired.
Now if the black people of the US want to keep having crazy names like Trayvon, then they need to stop complaining they are not succeeding in life. This is why Asians do better economically than even white Americans, because they have as part of their mentality, to blend in with society.
But you changing your name to Haruto, or Wei Chun changing her name to Jessica, isn't honest about who either of you are. And in a sense it shuts others off from knowing that much about who you are.
A name that's "hard to pronounce" is so only because the person learning it doesn't have it in their experience. Such is the case with any new name one is hearing for the first time. I had a hard time remembering the name Didier when I lived in France, just because it has no English cognate. But that's the responsibility of the person learning the name, not that of the person who bears it. So I didn't ask, or expect, Didier to give me a substitute name I could handle --- I just learned the name.
"French-sounding names"?
You mean popular with blacks who live in Morocco? Or Haiti? Or New Orleans?
Whelp -- who would know better than a resident of Prague.
Anyway, if she's that common you should have figured out how to pronounce it by now. You know, like you did with Czech.