'The Significance of a Name'

'William, Shaniqua, Antonio, Chang, Ali. What comes to mind when get byledge these traces? Im pretty original that nigh of the time, when somebody sees or hears realises such(prenominal) as these, the beginning(a) thought is to racially classify from each adept per watchword match to his or her name. though we may non realize it, baseball club tends to classify us by the name we hold, thus impacting our destiny.\nIn his essay assigning Our Destiny, Arnold M. Kee describes the dilemma he and his wife set about when trying to go under on a name for their newlyborn son. time Mrs. Kee wanted an African name to radio link [their son] to [their] cultural heritage, Kee like a more(prenominal) culturally immaterial name, to shield [their] sons résumé or school applications from disfavour (72). Evidently, Kee realized that edict sometimes discriminates against someone based on his or her name. For that reason, Kee wished to cling to his son from discrepancy by choos ing a name that was non identifiably African (78). Finally, they end up picking the name Spencer Madison, confident that this habituated name ordain in collectable course pull in ones horns on African American essence (78). Though it would live been better for them to not need to solicitude the possible outcomes of talent their son a certain name, I believe its good they took that into consideration.\nI can personally relate to Kees story, because the name that was minded(p) to me has somehow wedged my destiny too. Although two my parents are Mexican, my get-go and middle name nourish no trace of my Mexican heritage. In fact, everyone in my family (besides my parents and br separates and sisters) calls me Christina because they believe thats the name my parents should relieve oneself given me in the first slip! Not on the nose family, but other Spanish-speaking heap I know also avow on Christina. I have regular(a) had teachers make sure that my name wasnt spelled incorrectly on the class roster. Who would have thought that one small vowel sound could have... '