Exactly, he could not have that name because it was not Icelandic, in other words not on the list. Same as I wont call someone icelandic who is not an icelandic citizen.Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
Originally posted by: Czar
I'm still saying the same thing. If Googlygoogl immigrates to Iceland and becomes an icelandic citizen he can keep his name no questions asks. But if he has a kid he cant call him Googlygoogl jr because that name is not on the list.
So where do you stand now, do you still think this law is racist? do you still think I am racist?
Actually all you said in the beginning was that Googlygool would not be able to have Googlygool Jr because Googlygool is not an Icelandic name. Now you are saying that you support having Googlygool name his/her child Googlygool.
Is this law racist? Racist may be too strong, but it is clearly xenophobic if foreign names are on the banned list as you have indicated. Jose, Mohammed, etc. shouldn't have to apply for any names for their children just like Czar doesn't. MonkeyFace or some other name not related to culture or heritage or anything else applying for a name may be more reasonable to have to get approval.
I don't think you're racist, as I have previously clarified. However, I believe that you are xenophobic based on your comments in this thread as well as your comments in prevoius threads. You are too worried about your culture and language.
If I just take the names starting with the letter A, all of the foreign names on the banned list have another version in the allowed list. Is this xenophobic?
Everyone has to apply to have their names added to the list and if you realy would spend some time looking at it you would see that there are sooo many names in the banned list that are just the same names as in the allowed list but only with one or two letters changed, and I am talking about names purely of icelandic origin, for example Jóhan is the same as Jóhann but only with one n missing.
And to look at this even further, here is a list of the names that were rejected and accepted in their last meeting.
Leonida - denied - Doesnt fit icelandic grammaticly and has no back history.
Kata - accepted - Has some grammatic issues as per "frá Kötu" but otherwise ok.
Von - accepted - Has some grammatic issues as per "til Vonar" but otherwise ok.
Adel - accepted - Has some grammatic issues as per "til Adels" but otherwise ok.
As you should be able to see that it has alot to do with how it fits the icelandic language and that is a discussion I dont think you are even close to having enough knowledge to get into so I wont go further into it.
You could say this is xenophobic but I wont. Reasons for why I support this law mainly two.
1. It prevents stupid parents from naming their kids stupid names.
2. It gurantees that names used fit the icelandic language ( as per John becomes Jón )
If you are still going on about these other threads about where I said everyone is racist in some way then I have explained it perfectly well in this thread somewhere and why I belive so. If you want to go deeper into this subject then I will gladly do so by starting a new thread about that subject. If you have some other comments of mine that makes you think I'm xenophobic then please quote them.
And I dont know what you have learned but in Europe and everywhere else in the world languages and culture is the prime factor on what defines a nation.