We live in a world where some folks are brought up to believe there’s little or nothing they can learn from folks with ‘foreign sounding names’. A great number of wires get crossed in this manner.
Early recollections of hearing the word ‘foreign’ are invariably tinged with mistrustfulness. It never occurs to those who think in this way that they are also ‘foreign’ in the purview of folks from other cultures.
A well known commentator with xenophobic views has been quoted in a recent video that has gone viral, that the most common male name amongst youngsters nowadays is the name of a highly esteemed prophet.
Somehow, the washing machine and tumble dryers have mixed ideas up to the extent that hybridised freakish politicians of exotic heritages are indulging in more profuse (and public) weeping and gnashing of teeth about this issue than those who are supposed to be bereaved.
Is the problem going to be solved through whipping collective emotions into a frenzy?
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