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J. Kaufmann House, Pittsburgh, Pa.," would require "a less ethnic name and a less odiferous geographical location".
The social group offers its members more than just a geographic or ethnic name tag; it can provide the existential ground on which they stand.
Most of the boys' names are also unremarkable across race.A few years ago Roland Fryer and Steven Levitt wrote an interesting paper measuring the economic consequences of giving your baby an ethnic name.
Giving herself an exotic, ethnic name in Aliceville is also Chrissie's defiant way of flaunting her half-Cherokee origins, which arouse the small-mindedness of this small town's population.
Alexie fails to ponder, to any degree, the effect Hudson's byline might have on a writer with an "ethnic" name routinely rejected for lacking an "audience" for their work, or whose book covers are "whitewashed," or who is told by a publishing house that it has already published someone else in their cultural group.
When an ethnic name is 'dumbed down' for an American speaker, something beautiful is lost.
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Or maybe ethnic names are simply cycling out of fashion.
"Ethnic names were not all that hot," the son recalled.
A few ethnic names, like Ali and Hassan, have recently been added.
Although some ethnic names remain distinctive, those differences tend to dissipate over time.
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