Vivek names his daughter "Savithri". Why do Indians name their US born kids non-western names?

[ZoomerPsycho]

I just don't get it. If your kid is born in the USA, you're putting him at a gigantic disadvantage in life from the start by naming him an Indian name instead of "Tom" or "Henry" or "Nick"

With an Indian name, a kid will always have to correct people on the pronunciation of their name and how to spell it. It will get annoying super fast. Two, an Indian name will always be treated like an outsider and a foreigner as opposed to a kid named "Tom". Three, jobs do discriminate against 3rd world names. I just don't get why Indians do this to their kids. Their kids life would be 100x easier if they just gave them American names yet across the board Indians don't do this. Not even Vivek Ramaswamy, who is supposed to be this uber Republican person

I myself changed my legal middle name to an American name and now exclusively go by that name. I now certainly get taken more seriously than I did in High School.

 

[Chifuyu]

I have a nonwhite name as well. Why should my family have called me Sjoerd if it could be Abdul?

 

[Thebird]

I just don't get it. If your kid is born in the USA, you're putting him at a gigantic disadvantage in life from the start by naming him an Indian name instead of "Tom" or "Henry" or "Nick"

With an Indian name, a kid will always have to correct people on the pronunciation of their name and how to spell it. It will get annoying super fast. Two, an Indian name will always be treated like an outsider and a foreigner as opposed to a kid named "Tom". Three, jobs do discriminate against 3rd world names. I just don't get why Indians do this to their kids. Their kids life would be 100x easier if they just gave them American names yet across the board Indians don't do this. Not even Vivek Ramaswamy, who is supposed to be this uber Republican person

I myself changed my legal middle name to an American name and now exclusively go by that name. I now certainly get taken more seriously than I did in High School.

You tell me

 

[Inanimate Pragmatist]

I just don't get it. If your kid is born in the USA, you're putting him at a gigantic disadvantage in life from the start by naming him an Indian name instead of "Tom" or "Henry" or "Nick"

With an Indian name, a kid will always have to correct people on the pronunciation of their name and how to spell it. It will get annoying super fast. Two, an Indian name will always be treated like an outsider and a foreigner as opposed to a kid named "Tom". Three, jobs do discriminate against 3rd world names. I just don't get why Indians do this to their kids. Their kids life would be 100x easier if they just gave them American names yet across the board Indians don't do this. Not even Vivek Ramaswamy, who is supposed to be this uber Republican person

I myself changed my legal middle name to an American name and now exclusively go by that name. I now certainly get taken more seriously than I did in High School.

To take over.