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HelpRe: Using a name from another culture as an American
in reply to a message by New_Chloë
I mostly agree with the you about it coming down to a colonizer vs colonized issue, but I think in the US there is kind of a gray area when it comes to Spanish names in particular. Spain was one of the most powerful colonial nations, but in the modern day United States Spanish speakers are often marginalized and discriminated against. So that’s a bit more complicated imo.
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For sure, it can have a lot of nuance and grey areas. I can understand wanting it to be a simple "right and wrong" issue, but I don't know if there's ever going to be an easy answer for cultural borrowing and influences.
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