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Re: Kevinism

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Post by bonoboTP »

In Hungary the equivalent would be Roma families naming their children after foreign soap opera characters (e.g. Bobby [Ewing] in the 90s), footballers and other famous people, especially Latin American ones. By law names have to conform to Hungarian orthography (except if the parents have immigrant background)

Examples: Rikárdó, Armandó, Rodrigó, Dzsenifer (Jennifer), Dzsesszika (Jessica), Brájen (Brian), Dzsásztin (Justin), Brendon, Szamanta, Eszmeralda

Seems to be a universal thing across many countries that people in low socio-economic classes (black people in the US or Roma in Eastern Europe) give more, let's say, "unusual" names to their kids.

Re: Kevinism

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Post by michaelt »

Sean1708 wrote: post #49
arethuza wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps apart from Scotland where it is a fairly common part of place names (e.g. Kyle of Lochalsh) - having said that, I don't think it's a very common first name here, perhaps because of that?

I'm English and I've also never heard of the name Kyle having any kind of prejudice, might just be an American thing?

According to https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/kyle "Kyle is an online caricature [...] "Kyle" is generally presented as rage-filled and aggressive, and he is a fan of Monster Energy Drinks and Axe body spray"

It also says, tautologically, that "Kyle jokes parody of a certain kind of person with a set of characteristics one associates with the name"

Re: Kevinism

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Post by kschiffer »

Fellow (German) Kevin here. I like how this topic is frequently being brought up again in loose intervals as if it is important to remind everyone every once in a while.

I can confirm that there is indeed a stigma associated with the name. As a white young male though, being grumpy about such thing would be quite disproportionate. In that sense, it sort of makes me get an idea of what it could be like to be ridiculed for something one has no control or responsibility about.

Re: Kevinism

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Post by nyolfen »

dejawu wrote: post #68

Fellow Kevin here. While I was doing a fellowship [0] at the US Census Bureau last summer, I noticed a peculiar abundance of other Kevins working there. As a joke, I created this presentation [1] about this phenomenon, which I ended up accidentally showing the chief marketing officer. He loved it. [0] https://www.codingitforward.com/fellowship [1] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/117Q3zuyWulkDGcGXp4Bd...

you guys should unionize

Re: Kevinism

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Post by cgh »

Escapado wrote: post #7

My name is Kevin. I'm 27 and I'm from (west) germany. Most people I get to know will bring the topic up. I got a master's degree in physics and I have heard people say something like 'your name doesn't fit your profile at all' more times than I can count. I've seen girls in my sphere discard guys on Tinder partly due to being named Kevin. People do joke about the name and that's ok. It's not terrible but it isn't gre…

From the article: "The word "Alpha-Kevin" (combination of Alpha male and the given name), as being representative of a particularly unintelligent young person, was, for a time, at the top of the list, which was the subject of a 2015 online poll for the Word of the year (Germany) and, particularly, the youth word of the year."

In your interactions with the other Kevins of Germany, have you encountered any of these Alpha-Kevins? Are they held in particularly high esteem in Kevinish circles?

Re: Kevinism

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Post by JetSetWilly »

Freak_NL wrote: post #52
JetSetWilly wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Many (most?) expecting parents spend hours researching names online or in "1000 baby name ideas"-books. Too right. When we had to name a child, I took all the CSV files of every child names in Scotland for last 15 years (Scottish Government provides all the raw statistics for every name) and loaded the data set into elasticsearch where I was then able to construct visualisations and trends of candidate names and ge…

That… is certainly an interesting approach. Did you look for particular characteristics? My wife and I had a son this year, and took care to give him a name that would work well in any situation. He has two given names (we do too), so he has a backup name in case the first one doesn't suit him later on (my wife uses her second name, because her parents figured it suited her better after a year). We didn't use any tec…

Mainly was interesting to consider if a candidate name was popular in the past and not now, or in steep decline or steep ascent.

Old fashioned names are fine but I didn't want to choose a name that had just been popular 10 years ago and curse child with a faintly aunty-ish name for rest of her life, and didn't want to choose a name that might be about to become hugely popular either. At the same time didn't want a "unique flower" kind of name. A name with 10-50 children being named that each year and not wildly ascending or descending was in the sweet spot.

Re: Kevinism

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Post by schnevets »

snarfy wrote: post #48

I wonder how memes relate to this, like 'scumbag steve' and the various 'karen' jokes.

Yeah, the Karen/Chad/Becky phenomenon really makes me cringe. You'd think with recent culture shifts towards "wholesomeness" and "acceptance", turning someone's name into an insult wouldn't have caught on.

Re: Kevinism

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Post by craigzucchini »

chadlavi wrote: post #45
Escapado wrote: post #7

My name is Kevin. I'm 27 and I'm from (west) germany. Most people I get to know will bring the topic up. I got a master's degree in physics and I have heard people say something like 'your name doesn't fit your profile at all' more times than I can count. I've seen girls in my sphere discard guys on Tinder partly due to being named Kevin. People do joke about the name and that's ok. It's not terrible but it isn't gre…

My name is Chad, similar deal.

At least your name isn't Virgin

Edit: Might as well leave a link for regular people https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/virgin-vs-chad

Re: Kevinism

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Post by msla »

moomin wrote: post #32
nothrabannosir wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ... people being racist or homophobic without ever meeting people of the "other group". In my limited experience, this is the norm, not an exception.

What is even more entertaining is that when they do know people from the other group, they have a habit of treating them as shining exceptions to the rule, not questioning whether or not the rule is even valid.

"The Exception That Proves The Rule":

Yes, you can interpret it so it makes sense.

No, that sensible interpretation isn't the one that caught on.

It has a nasty symbiotic relationship with the "But you're one of the good ones" phenomenon, which is what you're more directly referring to.

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