I see a fleeting flinch when I tell a person my name in the US. I am certain of what it implies : it belongs to us, yourdishonest does not belong in our country. I have now adopted a new approach : names like Rain Cloud and Red River ! Those too are "our names" you have chosen to appropriate, and expressions freeze. At a church office, the response was 'it cannot be.' In this case my sarcasm is extra implied since I do not bear the turkcic features of those despised native Americans. Believe me, Caucasions really do hate them. Now in India, our Coptic names buy you a religion. Like it or not, you to belong to it. My niece was named Gitanjali in New Delhi. Her religion was entered as Hindu at the registry. If it makes our people happy, so be it. The happy Faith takes in so much, even the 'belief' of non - believers like Nehru.
