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Watch the OP video again.
But if you think the player and writer's point were just about pronunciation, I think you have a different interpretation of the story than I do.
NFL pick Odafe Oweh says MY NAME IS MY NAME/ SAS apologizes for mocking names
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But if you think the player and writer's point were just about pronunciation, I think you have a different interpretation of the story than I do.
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They don't. To single out Igbos speaks to that poster's ignorance
Nigeria as a whole was under British rule for close to 100 years. So they adopted the English/Westernized middle names
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This. Much respect to Odafe for this move tho.
Preciate it...I thought I was buggin'
do you know what the Biafran civil war is. That’s where your answers lie.Explain the Yoruba names then
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I know what the Biafran Civil War is....my question has nothing to do with that or Nigeria
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About the English names.
I think it would also be tied to something I mentioned earlier about migration and acculturation. That's universal.
In this case, it would involve the Nigerians who continued their studies in, and perhaps started their professional careers, in the UK. They would have started families, and given their children partially English names.
*Also, this wouldn't be as prevalent, but there was a small segment of English Caribbean expatriates who moved to Nigeria over the decades. The English surnames, and first names could be traced to the unions between them and their Nigerian spouses.
I made a thread about a book commemorating that community here.
Written by the daughter of such a couple.
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/one...aican-expatriate-community-in-nigeria.845214/
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About the English names.
I think it would also be tied to something I mentioned earlier about migration and acculturation. That's universal.
In this case, it would involve the Nigerians who continued their studies in, and perhaps started their professional careers, in the UK. They would have started families, and given their children partially English names.
*Also, this wouldn't be as prevalent, but there was a small segment of English Caribbean expatriates who moved to Nigeria over the decades. The English surnames, and first names could be traced to the unions between them and their Nigerian spouses.
I made a thread about a book commemorating that community here.
Written by the daughter of such a couple.
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/one...aican-expatriate-community-in-nigeria.845214/
Yes it does because if you understood what you were asking you would understand my reply.
“Why would an Igbo individual prefer an English name over a traditional Igbo name?”
it’s the same reason why a lot of old folks don’t teach their kids Igbo anymore
Most the Igbo people I know are proud to be Igbo...first, middle and last names are Igbo no hyphenated or English BS
When was the last time you were in Lagos
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Breh you going off on a tangent with the same ignorant statement as the other dude. What does having an English middle name have to do with not being proud of being Igbo?
Like, I don't even know how to even respond to that
They do it on purpose son think about all those Russian names they get right .It’s not even hard to pronounce.
Try pronouncing my cousins given name and these fools would get an aneurysm.
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True. Members over a certain age will remember when some of those names were almost exclusively Black names. Leroy and Tyrone were two of them.
And since we're speaking of football............when I first watched the playoffs, and heard about the Lamar Hunt trophy, I swore up and down the Kansas City Chiefs were originally owned by a Black man.
*don't front, some of y'all did to.
Only reason I didn't was because the Hunt family is known in Dallas. Otherwise....yeah that sounds like a breh
. White people used to be named LeRoy, Roscoe, Otis, Willie etc.At some point they went away from their own roots to be "different."
Hunter, Ethan etc. just to be different from us.