Mariyam Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 A decade or so ago, the West Indian cricketers has regular names. The ones that were indistinguishable from the wider gamut of Anglo Saxon names. And those of Indian origin had Indian names or hybrid names. But the cricketers today have really strange (first) names. Alzarri Joseph Keemo Paul Shimron Hetmeyer Carlos Braithewaite (Why a Latino first name, randomly ) Keiron Pollard I take it that these aren't usual names, even for the Caribbean. Even many of the black people in the USA have strange first names. Probably a recent thing. Basically they add Le/De/Te before a regular name. Leshaun Deandre Teshaun Lashanda. What gives? Cricket_Nostradamus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global.Baba Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 @Mariyam you see that among North American African American populace names like Tamiqua,shonda,shaniqua etc etc. I think it is a form of social rebellion. They want to embrace African sounding names and distance themselves from Christian names to move away from the memories of slavery where they were given white sounding names. Obviously there is nothing ethnic African about these names, however it is their way of creating an identity. There was a similar thing with the Nation of Islam as well when lot of them have embraced their own style of Islam prominent example being Malcom X and Md.Ali previously known as Cassius clay Cricket_Nostradamus, Laaloo and Mariyam 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamy Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 They also have their own dialect language - ebonics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philcric Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Zimbabweans have the most unusual names. Some of their first names are adjectives and common nouns like patience, evidence, fortune, surprise, clever, prosper etc. https://www.namepros.com/threads/unusual-first-names-of-zimbabwean-african-people.804898/ Mariyam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevada Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 8 hours ago, Mariyam said: A decade or so ago, the West Indian cricketers has regular names. The ones that were indistinguishable from the wider gamut of Anglo Saxon names. And those of Indian origin had Indian names or hybrid names. But the cricketers today have really strange (first) names. Alzarri Joseph Keemo Paul Shimron Hetmeyer Carlos Braithewaite (Why a Latino first name, randomly ) Keiron Pollard I take it that these aren't usual names, even for the Caribbean. Even many of the black people in the USA have strange first names. Probably a recent thing. Basically they add Le/De/Te before a regular name. Leshaun Deandre Teshaun Lashanda. What gives? West Indies had some Spanish influence also. The capital of Trinidad is Port of Spain. Brathwaite is from Barbados, which itself sounds like a Spanish name. Mariyam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straight Drive Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Alvin Cornelius had Roman last name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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