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yoruba naming ceremony and Yoruba names hold a significant value and meaning .Being half Yoruba your name is your totem and sets you on your path.Like many African cultures are very similar in this .
However living in the west ,people use their ignorance to belittle this pride in names and use as a way to screen africans in every aspect of society .
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However living in the west ,people use their ignorance to belittle this pride in names and use as a way to screen africans in every aspect of society .
Why do you think there's a belittling of naming culture going on (assuming you're talking specifically about when applicants (jobs, AirBnB) are excluded based on their (first) names)? Isn't it just that names are used as a trigger for racism?
Oliver Schick
In the not-too-distant future, there will be African names will become fashionable with everyone, blurring this distinction. (Yoruba naming culture, for instance, is amazing and will catch on.) This always happens when a country has a significant immigrant population. It just takes some time, usually a couple of generations.
For the time being, it's a crock of shit that this happens, of course, and it's no consolation that at some point it won't be possible to draw conclusions about someone's background from first names, because by that point it'll probably be a different and newer immigrant culture that gets discriminated against in this way.