On USofAnxiety, kai_wright and bichminhnguyen explored what’s in a name, especially when it comes to racial and ethnic identities. Plus, a listener leaves us a special voicemail about how he considered naming his child. Listen now:
. It tells her story of trying to find a place for herself in US culture. Beth, thanks so much for joining us.Can we start with your given Vietnamese name? The fact that people around you couldn't pronounce it was one of your first big experiences with feeling like you were uncomfortably different as a little kid. I have probably pronounced it three different ways already, your last name, at least in the course of this show. That would be an example.
The roll call is a source of trauma for me, and I read an article a few years ago that said that students who are exposed to prolonged mispronunciation of their names when they're very young do internalize a form of trauma. I read that piece and that really resonated with me because I realized,"Yes, that was me.
That's something I think about a lot, which is the circumstances around us change all the time and that the decisions we think are so great right now, they will feel different very soon perhaps.It's really profound. Eight months' time, they just had a totally different understanding of what their future was going to look like.I know. It was like they had been through hell. They had been through a lot. They were processing a lot of violence and actual traumas.
When I was growing people all the time would say that I was to blame. They just assumed that my family was on the"wrong side" of the war, which obviously makes no sense because why would we be refugees in the United States? There was just a lot of confusion.At what point did you decide to become Beth instead. You said in your 30s, right? Tell me about that moment. What led to that?I was so tired.
More than anything I didn't want my children to have trouble with a name that they would have to try to pronounce. If they would have trouble with it, then somebody else would and I didn't want my children to have to go through people trying to figure out how to say their name. I didn't want them to have to deal with that. That was it. A name like Kobe and Kai is easy to say. It worked out well because Kobe Melvin Wright, Kai Malcolm Wright.It had the flow. It had to flow.
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