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First Names Help Chinese-Canadian Children Fit Right In.

•     English First name and Chinese middle name:

•     Middle name keep cultural identity in tact

•     Chloe’s middle name in Phuong = Phoenix  — would the name phoenix work as a first name?

•     Long means Dragon —may not work as a first name?

•     English names were chosen to fit in (more approachable…more westernized)

•     Middle names have a connection to their home culture/origins/family—identity

•     Choosing an english name is proof that you are assimilating to the “dominant” culture

My Name is Margaret

•     Name is identity

•     amalgamation of everything that came before

•     Miss Glory — she could have been like Margaret

•     Her name used to be Hallelujah

•     She has come to accept and adopt her identity —“Glory”

•     Internalized “slave” mentality

•     When Margaret smashes dishes, Miss Glory says “we/our” not “your”

•     Miss Glory has accepted a new identity with accepting her new name

•     Margaret rejects a new identity by rejecting the name “mary”

•     Margaret is a connection to  her family/history/origin—identity

•     Retaining one’s sense of self

•     Mary=less than human—slave identity

•     Margaret represents = self actualization/a sense of identity

•     Mrs. Cullinan values her dishes more than Margaret

•     Virginia dishes —Cullinan’s family is from Virginia —Slave owners in Virginia

•     Miss Glory is hurt by Miss Cullinan’s Broken dishes from Virginia

•     Dishes breaking

•     Maya/Margaret/Mary

•     Maya and Margaret is her persona-sister/daughter/granddaughter/family—sense of being human

•     Mary=oppressed/less than human/no respect

Cultural Identity Through my Name(s)

•     Call me “Jane” —embarrassed by Korean Name

•     Adopted name and found belonging

•     gives up her Korean culture

•     Assimilates into American culture

•     willing to sacrifice Korean culture to fit in

•     after the exchange she gains sense of Korean culture

•     Leans how to live in two cultures

•     Substitute teacher mangles her name …she corrects him “my name is Dongeun”

She reclaims her identity —both American and Korean

You can’t know who you are unless you know where you’ve been.

Foreign Student

Si Lan — Tai Pei Culture /Model Student

Lani — westernized/americanized

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