If he does, I’m fine with it. It’s just a name. Let people be called by the names they want to be called unless they’re unreasonably long or very difficult for anyone in pretty much any language to pronounce.
I won’t call you Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged, but if you want me to call you Wowbagger, why not? I just don’t see the issue with anyone going with a name they weren’t born with other than the two things I just said.
If he wants to be called Vinny, I’ll call him Vinny.
No, you really didn’t.
But her parents doing it is not her doing it, which is the accusation. You can’t control what your parents call you.
I’m just glad my daughter is still okay with me calling her Baba at age 14. It’s because when she was a baby, she would say, “bababababa.”
What do you think increases things like ignorance and racism? You do know what lead does to people, right?
If you are saying South Asian people only have South Asian names they have used for their entire life that mean something in a South Asian language so that they can sound white, you are being bigoted. Sorry you don’t like that truth.
How can it both be true that she has always been called Nikki and that she changed her name to Nikki to sound more white?
Again, there are so many legitimate things to criticize her for, so why are you going for the bigotry of “South Asian people don’t have South Asian names unless they’re being deceptive?”
Don’t you think saying someone is only using her childhood Punjabi nickname is just trying to make people think she’s white is the kind of thing a Nazi might say?
Non-Western names can, believe it or not, sound like Western ones.
What a strange and bigoted thing to say. You’re now suggesting she shouldn’t use the name her family calls her because it sounds to white despite the fact that it’s technically spelled ਨਿੱਕੀ. But that tends to not be accepted on U.S. I.D.s.
If she were Chinese and had a name she spelled Lee, would she be trying to sound white or are there Chinese names that sound like Western ones?
I never said she can’t be scrutinized. I said it’s fucking bigoted to say that the reason why she is called Nikki is so she can sound white when that is not in any way the case since, again, it was a Punjabi childhood nickname.
You do understand that Punjabi isn’t English, right? And that non-English names can sound like English ones? You know, like Asian people named Li or Lee? And you know that Punjabi doesn’t use the Latin alphabet, so it can be spelled however you like with the Latin alphabet, right?
There are so many legitimate things to criticize her for, but you are going with, “she’s trying to make people think she’s white by using a South Asian name.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_(given_name)
I suppose she could calll herself ਨਿੱਕੀ, but that is pronounced the same way, so…
It has to do with respecting someone’s identity and maybe not accuse them of pretending to change her ethnicity when there’s no evidence since, you know, that’s pretty fucking bigoted.
Do you really think her parents called her a Punjabi name in childhood to make her more American just because it sounds like a Western name?
Please do show me where she used her childhood Punjabi nickname to convince people she’s white.
My god, there are so many legitimate things to criticize her for and people are just stuck on something that isn’t.
I looked it up because no one else bothered to. It’s her childhood nickname and it means “little one” in Punjabi.
People here are just assuming it was about fooling people about her ethnicity.
Someone can only run for governor if they use their full legal name to do so? When did this law get passed? As I have pointed out already to two others, Nikki was her childhood nickname and it is a Punjabi word. This is no different from why Beto O’Rourke calls himself that. It was his childhood nickname. And, similarly, people came up with all sorts of nefarious reasons why he was doing it.
Is that a yes or a no? And please explain why. Insults are not answers.
That may not have been what OP meant, I don’t know. But other people are saying she changed her name to sound white and it just isn’t true.
Okay, then what exactly were you trying to say to me? Because I still have no idea.
This is a name, not an ethnicity.
Also, she didn’t change it for political reasons, you just decided she did. It was her childhood nickname and it means “little one” in Punjabi. It took seconds for me to find out that out.
So you’re essentially saying that she is lying about being Indian-American by using her childhood nickname. Are you sure that’s what you want to go with?
Fair enough. That is what other people have been arguing in this thread and it annoys me when there are so many legitimately awful things about her.