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What is your opinion of a white kid named Geronimo?
I ask because there was a student named Geronimo at the high school when I worked there.
"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." -Charles Bukowski
I ask because there was a student named Geronimo at the high school when I worked there.
"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." -Charles Bukowski
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Wel, since it's not actually a Native American name per se, I don't feel the same way about it as I would about a white kid named Cherokee or something. However, it is almost exclusively associated with THE Geronimo.
Besides that, anytime you yelled for him, people would look around to see if you were about to jump off a cliff or out of an airplane or something. lol
Besides that, anytime you yelled for him, people would look around to see if you were about to jump off a cliff or out of an airplane or something. lol
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Well, it's a Spanish name, not from an indigenous language, so even though it's so strongly associated with an Apache with the name. The kids where I work might think of Geronimo Stilton first. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo_Stilton I think I'd try to start calling him Gerry/ Jerry. I'm sure I'd get used to it, even if he doesn't like the nn.
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Why would you start calling a kid Gerry if no one else calls him that, and he doesn't like it? There is nothing wrong with the name Geronimo, and forcibly pushing a nick name onto the boy would give him the idea that their was something wrong with his name or with him. Just because a child's name doesn't fit within someone else's arbitrary ideas of what appearance and ethnic identity they need to go along with their name does not give another person the right to rename a child. Would you press a nick name onto a boy with some Spanish lineage named Arthur just because the real Arthur was from Britain? Hopefully not.
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