You may have seen this blog post a few years back, but I’m often reminded of it while working with the Baruch student population. As our Admissions Office boasts, we have 160 countries represented at Baruch, and a simple glance around a typical classroom confirms it. No matter your origin, your professors have probably struggled with your name at one point.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names gives an amusing overview of how people’s names and naming standards vary around the world, from the perspective of trying to build a database of names. What resonates with you? Do you recognize your cultural standards, or even your cultural blindness, in this list?