Journal #3

Your name defines who you are because it's essentially your title. When you hear it you respond, everyone has a common way to get your attention and that is by using your name.  I personally think, your name does not define who you are, your personality defines who you are. One issue which was heavily discussed in the reading was how people would jump to conclusions and not hang out with the author due to her non traditional name. Many people make cultural assumptions and are prejudice when they do not respond or react the same to someone because they have a non traditional American name. I would not change my name but the reason behind that is luckily I never had to go through what the author of the article and what her family went through. I do agree with the author and believe that her story's about interactions with others and their bullying due to her name are true. It is a sad truth but it is reality today. I believe we need to start teaching people in our world to start listening and learning, in order to help prevent discrimination and stereotyping today.

• sad truth to names, people judge based on names
• It is very obvious people usually assume others race and ethnicity due to name
• Names can have a large effect on children 
• People who wanted to change their names they were all of a different race, we saw no caucasian people who wanted to change their name, no white person has maybe even thought about changing their name
• Interesting how studies show that parents in unfortunate low level circumstances/living conditions have higher chance of naming their child a unique name