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Originally Posted by goofyballer
You cited a paper that showed 95% of like 8,000 survey respondents classifying "Jamal" as black and now you're sitting here like "hurr durr actually my very own paper is trash now that it's making me look dumb". LOL itslyinginvegas!
I'm not saying it's trash. As the paper states, these names have not been rigorously tested using well-developed methodology, including that survey you are clinging to. Further, I'm not denying other people might associate it as a black name, which you take as an indicator of race, and think everyone does, but what you don't get is, I'm actually well traveled, it would not occur to me to think it as "black name". It's really uncommon name, and it's way more prevalent in middle eastern countries. Remember, you challenged
my perception, not America-at-large. It's not a black name. What people perceive it as is depends on the methodology of the survey.
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Why would you not name your kid "Jamal"?
You assumed I would not name my kid Jamal becasue it's a "black name" and I've never thought of it as a "black name".
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Originally Posted by goofyballer
What you should be learning from this is that you are remarkably uninformed about how Americans at large perceive racial signals from names!
That might be the case, but the problem is....it hurts more white people than black people, in the case of Jamal (but actually hurts arabs more than anyone).
Last edited by itshotinvegas; 07-21-2020 at 12:10 AM.