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HTTP:: Fear of Discrimination Alters Baby Naming Trends
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A new study seems to indicate the fact that, in the 19th century, Irish emigrants to England renounced baptizing their children with Catholic names such as Patrick and Bridget, our of fear that the English would discriminate against them. The research team, based at the Durham and Northumbria universities, says that this trend of altering traditional baby names for fear of prejudice and discrimination can also be seen in other parts of the world today, in growing immigrant communities in large cities. More than 30,000 records from 17 counties were studied, and the researchers noticed that the trend of giving Irish emigrant babies Catholic names went down considerably in the second-generation Irish, whereas the incidence of English Protestant names in the same category went up significantly. The authors say that previous studies already identified similar trends in communities such as the Turkish in Germany, the Indians in Australia, and the Irish migrants in the United St!
ates. “We think that people chose to avoid traditional names to minimize prejudice rather than people simply being influenced by general or English names within their community and choosing those instead. In some of our other work, we have found that prejudice against the Irish immigrant community was quite common. At the time,...
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