![]() ![]() It's easy for cowards to hide in the crowd. Keep your chin up and realize that if those mocking you were in another place, they would be mocked. But then I realized that it just made matters worse. Why would you take a last name and make it your first name". I used to mock them back and say "McKenzie is your first name? Hahaha. ![]() If you are proud of it, no one can mock you for it. One thing to remember is that because most localities no longer record births by race in the US, that list of names may not be representative of the whole country. There seems to be a real difference in what you might call the "gravitas" of boys' vs girls' names, and I have no idea why. But you raise a great point that I hadn't thought about. I think the Bible-based names, like Isaac and Daniel, are pretty much ethnically neutral at this point, at least here in the US. Ronald E Franklin (author) from Mechanicsburg, PA on May 12, 2015: It seems that multiculturalism works best to the advantage of everyone who subscribes to the "economic culture." These women who name their children these home made names that are either hard to say, or appear to be one-off names are sentencing that child to being left out of many opportunities in life, it is sad but appears to be true. When we reach out to become diversified and color blind in our society, I have always thought that a child's chances are damaged socially and economically by naming in a way that denotes that person as being some how different or separate from the broader culture. On the other hand, white-sounding names often yielded no such ads even though the advertiser's own database contained criminal records attached to that name. Sweeney discovered that Google searches for names typically associated with blacks, such as "Ebony," "DeShawn," or, ironically, her own name, "Latanya," were 25 per cent more likely to bring up advertisements for services having to do with criminality than were similar searches using more "white" sounding names, such as "Kristen" or "Jill."Īds for criminal background checks or arrest records appeared even when the particular black-sounding name searched had no criminal records associated with it. What she found was that ads placed with some Google searches show a racial bias:ĭr. So, she conducted an academic research study to determine if her perception was real. It seemed she was seeing an inordinate number of ads for criminal background checks and the like. Harvard professor Latanya Sweeney, who is black, began noticing something odd in her Google searches. The disparities in how people are treated based on whether their name seems black or white extends even to Google. The 50 percent gap in callback rates is statistically very significant… It indicates that a white name yields as many more callbacks as an additional eight years of experience.Įven Google Treats People With Black-Sounding Names Differently ![]() Job applicants with white names needed to send about 10 resumes to get one callback those with African-American names needed to send around 15 resumes to get one callback… The results indicate large racial differences in callback rates. Half of them were randomly assigned names typically associated with blacks, while the other half bore "white-sounding names, such as Emily Walsh or Greg Baker.”īertrand and Mullainathan reported on their research in a paper entitled Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? The NBER summarized their findings this way:Ī job applicant with a name that sounds like it might belong to an African-American - say, Lakisha Washington or Jamal Jones - can find it harder to get a job… ![]() The resumes were divided into two equivalent groups, each representing a range of qualifications for the positions. In their study, the researchers sent out resumes in response to employment ads in Chicago and Boston newspapers. The research was conducted between July 2001 and January 2002. Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conducted a study to determine the effect on employment of having a name that could be related to a particular race. ![]()
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