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It may be sad, but apparently true according to an article I read a couple of years ago... your name can affect your acceptance among your peers, and also your chances at getting a job. In adolescents, children with "non-conforming" names (I believe that was the term that was used), were not as well as accepted as kids with "conforming" names. A black girl named Shaquanda would be accepted by her peers more readily than a white girl of the same name (different sets of peers). And HR managers apparently are much more likely to set aside resumés with names that suggest an ethnicity other than their own (mostly that white HR managers tended to reject more black, Muslim, or Hispanic sounding names).
So naming your kid may well require some ethnic sensitivity that most parents don't really consider when they name the child. And Woods opening post may well offend some people because of that, but I can certainly understand her position.
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