Former Apprentice contestant [name]Katie[/name] Hopkins has been accused of snobbery after saying she doesn’t want her children to associate with others who have names like ‘[name]Tyler[/name]’ or ‘[name]Charmaine[/name]’. [name]Do[/name] you judge people based on their first names?
She said during an interview " I don’t like geographical names like [name]London[/name] or [name]Brooklyn[/name]". Then then interviewer stopped her in her tracks by saying “Your child is called [name]India[/name]”.
Would you not let your child play with ‘[name]Tyler[/name], [name]Charmaine[/name], [name]Brandon[/name] or [name]Kylie[/name]’?
I’d definitely let my children play with someone, even if I hated the name. I’ll be honest like in the last post and say I would judge the parents if they gave a trashy name/spelling (think: Moshaniquahtay, Kynydy, Jonythyn, etc) But I don’t think the child deserves to be scrutinized or excluded because of the parents choice.
UMM just because someone names their child [name]Holden[/name] does not make them intelligent, well mannered, wealthy, educated, interesting or hip. [name]Just[/name] cause someone names their child [name]Braedynn[/name] doesn’t make them trashy, rude, poor, uneducated, stupid, uncool, ect.
I get along with all kinds of people. I really don’t need someone to have the same taste or lifestyle as me to get along with them. In fact I often find that I don’t “click” well with women who it seems I should, like those who like the same music as me, live the same healthy/crunchy lifestyle as me, ect…I often have the most fun with people that don’t 100% agree with me, it makes friendship more interesting imo. I usually have a great time with the [name]Neveah[/name]/Kenydi moms & find that some moms of the best named kids can be kinda uptight & shrill!
Judging people by their names is ridiculous on so many levels. I would not care what the names were
of the children my child would play with at all. That lady has serious issues
I saw the interview from This Morning and I was greatly enraged by it (but what more can you possibly expect from a writer for Daily Mail?) I am absolutely amazed that Holly and Phillip could actually restrain themselves from kicking her (though it looked like Holly was kicking her so hard in her mind), I sure as hell wouldn’t have been able to. What bothers me the most is the fact that though she says it “isn’t about class at all”, it is about her classism. The fact that she presumes that working class children are snotty, slacking and self-centered. That the working class somehow isn’t as intelligent as the upper class and the middle class. The nerve that appalling woman has to presume that she and her precious little dolls are better than everyone else because they’re more fortunate than others. I’m so glad that Anna May defended us working class children so proudly (I am a proud working class child myself - probably with what Katie Hopkins would describe as a ‘urgh’ name - embarking on law school next year).
How can one even think of judging children by their names? There is SO much more to people than their names. A name doesn’t define you. A name doesn’t make you uneducated or bratty. I swear, I hope her children (so eloquently named India (which by the way is ‘not related to a location’ as London or Brooklyn are), Poppy and Maximillian) will bring home endless amounts of Tylers, Simons, Charmaines and Kylies.
I’ll encourage people who haven’t seen the episode to watch it. Not only do you get a good ten minutes of loony-talk by a deluded snob, you also get to see the lovely Holly Willoughby looking like she’s ready to strangle Katie and you get so many stunned-beyond-belief facial expressions by Phillip Schofield.
No. I admit there are names I dislike, but it wouldn’t let me stop letting my child play with little [name]Tyler[/name] or [name]Journey[/name] or whatever.
Hmm, well in general i judge children by how they behave, as another poster said up-thread. But i do sort of assume things about the parents sometimes. Like I’ve yet to meet a [name]Paisley[/name] (and all alternate spellings) whose mom wasn’t an airhead whose biggest concern in life is preparing her 2-year old to be a future cheerleader. That isn’t to say that every person who chooses the name [name]Paisley[/name] is like that, but I’ve met enough that i sort of assume it with some names.
It wouldn’t ever affect how i treat a child or their parents, and I’m always happy to be proven wrong. But sometimes i make those assumptions, and i don’t think there’s any harm in that if it isn’t coming from a mean place. All the moms of Paisleys i know are lovely people and fun to talk to…just have different aspirations for themselves and their kids, and that’s fine. Like i said, as long as it doesn’t affect how you treat someone, i think having that assumption isn’t in itself a bad thing
No. You are not your name. Your name could be changed this very moment and you would be the exact same person you are. [name]IMO[/name], [name]Tyler[/name] and [name]Brendan[/name] are perfectly fine names and any guy berries with those names, right on. She would probably tell me that my name ([name]Alexis[/name]) is horribly trashy. This lady needs to calm down. I hope little [name]Maximilian[/name] marries a [name]Kylie[/name], and [name]Poppy[/name] and [name]India[/name] have boyfriends named [name]Tyler[/name] and [name]Brendan[/name].
[name]Katie[/name] Hopkins is the most irritating, outrageous woman I’ve ever seen on national television. Not only did she make a nation full of people hate her, she’s made herself look like a complete idiot by saying she hates geographical location names and named her daughter [name]India[/name]. She is also judging children by their looks by saying you can’t name a child without looking at them and it’s stupid to name a child [name]Bella[/name] if she’s ugly.
This woman is a serial attention seeker and will do anything for publicity, I suggest to anyone to research her background, she’s not the higher class ‘lady’ she thinks she is.
I work in a school filled with children named [name]Tyler[/name], [name]Jayden[/name], [name]Angel[/name] and [name]Brandon[/name] not all of them come from lower class families. Some of these children have a lot of potential for the future and are bright, beautiful and young individuals who shouldn’t be judged just because of their names.
I guess you can change your name but not your ugly personality.
If we were all judged by the actions of our parents I would be held to account for my parents once collecting me from school in matching bright yellow track suits. Having survived that horror I would never judge someone else by their name.
I do however always feel predisposed to like new children’s parents if the child has a great name!
Trying to decide who your child plays with at all is a weird thing to try and do, let alone based on their name!
However, I do judge kids a little bit based on their names. I am a school teacher, and it is common for us to have associations (+ and -) with certain names based on our experiences. For that reason, I could never name a child [name]Matthew[/name], and [name]Anthony[/name]'s are always worth getting to know.
There are certain names I don’t like but I would never stop my child playing with another child because I don’t like their name. There are certain names I do have preconceived judgements about, but that’s usually from experience - I have had issues with girls named [name]Kayleigh[/name] and [name]Chantelle[/name] in the past, for example, and I do have a bad internal reaction to these names when I hear them, but that’s because the name reminds me of the person. I grew up associating with a mixture of people - I went to school with people named [name]Eleanor[/name], [name]Victoria[/name], [name]Michael[/name] and [name]Anthony[/name], very classic names, but also names that are seen as a bit chavvy/common in my area - [name]Taylor[/name], [name]Connor[/name], [name]Liam[/name], for example - as well as names from different cultures and backgrounds. I don’t see how segregating her children’s friends is going to help them later in life when they will be forced to mix and work alongside people with names like [name]Kylie[/name], [name]Brandon[/name] and [name]Paris[/name].
Yeah, there are names that’ll I’ll be prejudiced against before meeting a kid because, in my experience, nearly all the people I’ve previously come across with that name are not nice. [name]Tyler[/name], [name]Mackenzie[/name], [name]Charleigh[/name] & [name]Chelsea[/name] are prime examples. I’d also be judging the parent’s taste. But it goes no further than that little internal-head-converation. If future kiddo wants to have [name]Chelsea[/name] as a best friend- absolutely fine. If [name]Chelsea[/name] tries to induct my kiddo into a ring of crack whores- not fine.