I had a Colombian friend tell me about this phenomena as well. He is actually from a humble background there so he has a right to laugh at it, and I bring up how my family does this- my father hates his name, as it was given in the trend of bougie self-centered housewives of the 1950s, and this tradition has continued - girls named Hunter or Reighleigh and such and boys with names like Asher and Billings. This is also what poor white people often do these days, too.
I try to focus on bad, bougie white people names, but I allow myself the joy of laughing at any name. Maybe I shouldn’t, but I am just having some fun.
I recollect asking a Chinese friend about a mutual Chinese person’s name when I noticed that her name on her documents were different and the name sounded flashy - my spider sense for cringe bourgeois names tingled, and I brought it up, and he immediately smiled ear to ear when I asked “Is that like a name you pick when you think you are the main character of a TV show?”
A French friend had told me that there’s this stereotype of poor French people giving their kids pure American names like ‘Johnny’ and ‘Mickey,’ etc.
Maybe the name is cuban or venezuelan, those kind of names are somewhat common in low income areas in Venezuela at least.
Source: Lived in Venezuela most of my life
I had a Colombian friend tell me about this phenomena as well. He is actually from a humble background there so he has a right to laugh at it, and I bring up how my family does this- my father hates his name, as it was given in the trend of bougie self-centered housewives of the 1950s, and this tradition has continued - girls named Hunter or Reighleigh and such and boys with names like Asher and Billings. This is also what poor white people often do these days, too.
I try to focus on bad, bougie white people names, but I allow myself the joy of laughing at any name. Maybe I shouldn’t, but I am just having some fun.
I recollect asking a Chinese friend about a mutual Chinese person’s name when I noticed that her name on her documents were different and the name sounded flashy - my spider sense for cringe bourgeois names tingled, and I brought it up, and he immediately smiled ear to ear when I asked “Is that like a name you pick when you think you are the main character of a TV show?”
A French friend had told me that there’s this stereotype of poor French people giving their kids pure American names like ‘Johnny’ and ‘Mickey,’ etc.