MDDM Ch. 67 Various

[Terrance]

Otto wrote:
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> 1. Is it really more far out than naming a "German" Herero Enzian or giving
> GW's house-slave the Jewish name Gershom?

Well, who is it that names Enzian? 
Hint, it wasn't Rilke. 
And Washington had a slave named Gershom. 


> 
> 2. Contrary to the historical record at least he lets them have names and by
> doing so, personality.
> 
> 3. Wasn't it a white & racist habit to rename colonised people instead of
> leaving them their birth names?
> 
>

Frank Terry 

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/INCORP/Native/names.html

Say, this all reminds me od an Indian short story, By Any Other Name. 

by Santha Rama Rau