Who Do You Think You Are?

Do you know who you are? Everyone has a birth certificate; a birth certificate lists our personal identity what we are birth with. Did anyone ask you what the meaning of your name is? Do you think your name will be your identity? A good name takes an important part in our life and career. Our names are the gift which we received ever since we have born. Names contain the hope and wishes of our parents or someone else. From then on, they will follow us wherever we go. Basically, we use names to identify a person; therefore, you don’t have to call others in describing his character or appearance. Names like our clothes. Both of them tend to leave people different impressions. Therefore, our names are important tp help us conform to the society, show our personal life attitudes and basic surrounding culture in general to identify ourselves.

Having a common name helps people to conform the society, especially for immigrations. Firoozeh Dumas discussed how this unusual foreign name caused troubles in her life. The mom at her children’s school called her “F Word” instead of calling her real name. If you have an unusual name, American people do not really learn how to pronounce your name. Furthermore, after graduating from UCBerkeley, Dumas suffered several setbacks because having an exotic name. Companies realized your name is uncommon and foreign, and they set you apart from other applicants. She had to put an American name to conform the society to find a job. The name presented who we are in the society. She decided to add an American name on her applications and resumes; she decided to be a part of this society. As Dumas writing, an exotic name is “a pain in the spice cabinet.” (Remix, 84)

A name could show your personal choices ...

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...gn name in school, you might think about changing your name. If the people around you feel comfortable to call your real name, you might do not have to change it. I prefer to use my English name to my Chinese name, but when I’m talking with Chinese, I prefer to say my Chinese name. We have four tones in every Chinese character; in my name, there are 3 Chinese characters. If they don’t know how to pronounce the tones in my name, there will be 81 ways to pronounce my name, so I use my English name to make it easier.

A beautiful name might leave an attractive picture of your personal identity, make someone feel an emotion, and place a perfect first impression. It shows your tastes. We are not supposed to judge one only by his or her name, but most of people will be much willing to get close to you if you have a good name, and then they will find your inner qualities.