The entitlement and disrespect. 
Y’all make everyone learn English, which is one of the hardest languages in the world to learn, to make your life easier and then have the audacity to to make someone else feel less then because you are too lazy to properly pronounce their name.
This is triggering for me. I do not have a “normal name“ and neither do my siblings, even though my parents have the most Irish Catholic names you’ve ever heard in your life (and yes they are both black).  I have spent an exorbitant amount of my time repeating my name, spelling out my name and correcting peoples pronunciation of my name. It’s unusual but it’s not that complicated. Six letters. Three syllables. Endless headaches…
“Your name is too complicated.“ or “I’m just gonna call you ________ instead, okay?”
Nope. Not today Satan
You can call me by my name or I can call you that motherfucker who is too lazy and/or stupid to learn to pronounce my name properly. I’m not asking you to memorize a fucking haiku; just a basic, bottom level acknowledgment of my humanity, that’s all.
If you can learn to pronounce dead white guys names like Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky and Bach, you can put the same effort into learning complicated living peoples names too. Unless of course it wasn’t about the complexity of the words and was only about the person’s complexion…
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