{"id":456210,"date":"2021-04-26T14:21:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T18:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=456210"},"modified":"2021-04-26T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T18:21:12","slug":"no-mispronouncing-names-isnt-casually-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-mispronouncing-names-isnt-casually-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Mispronouncing Names Isn\u2019t \u2018Casually Racist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-mispronouncing-names-isnt-casually-racist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=456210&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3801.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>My surname is Haworth and, for my entire life, people have mispronounced it. <\/span><span>\u201cHayworth,\u201d <\/span><span>\u201cWhore-worth,\u201d <\/span><span>\u201cHanworth,\u201d <\/span><span>\u201cHanward,\u201d <\/span><span>\u201cHoe-earth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And those are just the examples that even slightly resemble the actual pronunciation: \u201cHow-earth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yes, I understand that it\u2019s not obvious. \u201cWhore-worth,\u201d for example, is an understandable interpretation which I try and correct as quickly as possible for obvious reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The reason it\u2019s not obviously pronounced \u201cHow-earth\u201d is because our language doesn\u2019t always portray the precise pronunciation of words, and particularly names.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When someone says my name incorrectly \u2014 which happens on an almost daily basis\u00a0\u2014 I know that it\u2019s not a big deal. The vast majority of people say it correctly when they find out how to say it correctly, and it\u2019s obvious that their initial mistake was honest, rather than motivated by an underlying hatred for me \u2014 as a person \u2014 or \u201cmy kind,\u201d whether that be males, white males, white British males, or white British Jewish males.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>How do I know this? Because I am an adult who isn\u2019t in constant search of opportunities for victimhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, there are others among us who <em>are<\/em> in constant search of opportunities for victimhood. Earlier this month, for example, Ashley Lee wrote a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2021-04-06\/mispronouncing-asian-names-racism-ovation-awards\"><span>column<\/span><\/a><span> for the LA Times titled, \u201cThe casual racism of mispronouncing an Asian person\u2019s name.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMispronouncing someone\u2019s name, accidentally or on purpose, at the very least demonstrates a selective laziness to learn the correct way to address or acknowledge a person. The name is perceived as particularly difficult only because it\u2019s beyond the white European names that have been deemed normal,\u201d Lee wrote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is far from a unique argument. Yewande Biala wrote for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/yewande-biala-love-island-lucie-donlan-b1792717.html\"><span>Independent<\/span><\/a><span>, \u201c\u2018My name is Yewande\u2019: Mispronouncing or changing people\u2019s names is just another form of racism\u201d in January 2021, while David Lightman wrote for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/presidential-election\/article246634238.html\"><span>Sacramento Bee<\/span><\/a><span>, \u201cWhen is it racist to mispronounce Kamala Harris\u2019 name?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Social interaction is laced with the risk of causing offense, even in a homogenous region in which every citizen shares the same politics, culture, language and religion. Mix this up with a few different languages, dialects, and customs, and you\u2019ve got a potential disaster on your hands\u2026if you are looking for disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Instead, why don\u2019t we just calm down? \u201cYewande Biala\u201d is a complicated name, presumably originating in the words of a different language. \u201cKamala\u201d has multiple pronunciations, much like Haworth, and given that Joe Biden himself routinely uses different versions, is it a surprise that people \u201cget it wrong?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Instead, let\u2019s not assume the worst in people by drenching every possible interaction with a layer of bigotry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Or, at the very least, perhaps you can explain how I should deal with people when they call me \u201cIan Whore-worth,\u201d because maybe politely correcting them and happily getting on with my day is the wrong choice?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ighaworth\"><i><span>@ighaworth<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My surname is Haworth and, for my entire life, people have mispronounced it. \u201cHayworth,\u201d \u201cWhore-worth,\u201d \u201cHanworth,\u201d \u201cHanward,\u201d \u201cHoe-earth.\u201dAnd those are just the examples that even slightly resemble the actual pronunciation: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276741,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3801.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"No, Mispronouncing Names Isn\u2019t \u2018Casually Racist\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3801.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"No, Mispronouncing Names Isn\u2019t \u2018Casually Racist\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}