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Sunday, 11 March 2018

Can Aanjaneya be a black Japanese boy?

An adventurist father named his two twin sons Winner and Loser Lane. They both were raised together, went to the same school, took the same subjects, attended the same tuition and did more or less everything similar.
Loser Lane succeeded in life. He went to Lafayette college in Pennsylvania and joined the police department. He never hid his name but it was often very uncomfortable for others to call him "Loser". They used nicknames like "Lou" or "Losier" or sometimes just gave him a different name. 
As for his brother Winner, became a criminal with a very long record: nearly three dozen arrests for burglary, domestic violence, trespassing, resisting arrest and arson.

This example shows that naming your child does not matter on what he or she ends up becoming. We make our own destinies and superstitious names like "Kulakesara" will not make your son famous, or even a famed pundit. 
We often associate a lot of personalities with names. fFor example, we often associate Arjun to be an idiot's name or a common person who has nothing special. We associate Paris to be a name of a party animal. we address Charity as a stripper's name. in general, we associate names with personalities and jobs.

Worse than this, we often associate names with castes or how rich a person is.
You would normally associate a Chotu or Mukesh to a servant or a lower person, while you would address a name like Richmond or "warren" to a rich man or a top class person.
The truth is that this is just a continuous bias towards these names. just because all the Mukeshs you hear about are servants, doesn't mean that its a lowly name, as there is a billionaire after that name. 

When it comes to names, we jump to conclusions very fast. We take names to be the end all of a person's religion or race. We always assume a Ram is a Hindu or an Ali is a Muslim or John is a Christian. The truth is that a name does not define you. Ram could be a muslim if he wants and Ali could be a Buddhist, John could be a Jew and Sohinki could be a Taoist. 

A very common herd mentality is to name children after typical names. For example black people name boys DeShawn or DeBravo and girls Aliyah or Kiara.
white people name boys Cody or Anthony and girls Ashley or Jessica.
Asians name boys Yamamoto or nobita and girls Shizuka or Midori 
Spanish people name boys Juan or Javier and girls Juanita or Camilla 

These are the most common racial names and are also the lowest performing or the least successful people with these name. 
But what if these people want to change their names? what if Anthony wants to change his name to Benjamin (the most high end white boy name), or, more importantly, what if DeShawn wants to change his name to Connor (the second most popular white boy name)? 
Will this change affect who they are? now that they have new and successful names, will the thread of destiny change for them? 
The answer: NO
Anybody who bothers to change their name in the name of economic success is at least highly motivated, and motivation is probably a stronger indicator of success than, well, a name. - Steven Levitt 
At one point in the 1990s, the most famous girl's name was Nevaeh. The reason behind this girl's name was that if you were to spell it backwards, it would spell to heaven. Some superstitious parent mustve thought that if he or she would have named their child that, it would signify prosperity.

In india, their a common mentality to name your cild after gods or children of gods. That is why there are so many Ganeshs, Rams, Radhas, and Mohammeds roaming around. the truth is that several of these people commit crimes and "taint their God's name". All of this is baloney and a pretence to blame people for something that does not affect them.
It doesn't matter what your name is, you can be a Mohandas and commit crimes and be a Dawood and be a philanthropist






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