Yes, and to whom are they speaking of?
When he worked for a Wall Street headhunter, he felt potential clients would blow him off when they heard his name.
For Larry Whitten, owner of the Whitten Hotel in Taos, N.M., names mattered
My grandfather, whose first name was Soukias, worked in a New York textile factory and was told by his boss when he started: “Your name is now Joe.”
my sister, an attorney in Virginia, changed her name to Tahmin from Tahmincioglu because an employer told her to pick a name that sounded more American.
One particular client who was an electrical engineer was from Pakistan and named Raheem.
Reading comprehension, it's your friend.
So what do we have? Wallstreet headhunter, hotel manager, attorney, engineer, etc. These are hardly jobs that a 16 year old kid would use. In fact, your own article betrays you
“I tried using an American name, ‘Andrew Warner,’ and suddenly I could at least engage them in conversation and sell them some ads so I could build my business,” he said. He now goes by Andrew Warner and runs a successful entrepreneurial resource site called Mixergy.com in Santa Monica, Calif.
See what happened there? Despite his name, he was able to professionally use another and removed the affect. Hence it's not permanent, doesn't even require you to legally change your name though some have. So what can we take from this? The article is about careers. It talks about HR departments, headhunters, engineers, etc. We're not talking McDonald's employee. None of this is permanent, it can all be changed with a name change. So there's nothing there also.
So what's the most likely answer here? Not that un-American names may suffer in the career department and you should consider the professional name you use, because we see that this just takes the knowledge that it exists and then individuals can overcome it. It's that this particular case has a name YOU don't like and you're trying to find any excuse under the sun to hold everyone to your ideals of what names should be.
But it's not Dicatatorship of Haughty, it's America and people have freedom of choice and that extends to their kids. They can name them Sky or Moon Unit or Twist O'Lemon if they want. We don't need a preapproved list as you would subject us to. If, in the future, those individuals may encounter difficulties because of their names, they can change them or go by something else. That's it.
So stow the thought control because thought control is well more damaging to us as a whole than some individuals with unique or crazy names.
