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| Tue, 02-15-2005 - 2:44pm |
Middle name for Trinity (TLH initials). Sister is Tiara LaFaye.
- Trinity LaNyah
- Trinity Lanai
- Trinity Laina
- Trinity Laila
- Trinity Layla
- Trinity Lavinia
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I like Lanai pronounced either way. Anything having to do with Hawaii is a good thing in my book :)
Another L name I really like is Lael--pronounced lay-elle. Trinity Lael H. sounds nice IMO.
Your family is gorgeous, by the way.
Also--Stephhsi--I noticed that you are the CL for the multi-cultural families board. My boyfriend is Chamorro (Native from Guam) and I am white. Since we've been together, we have noticed that there are many Asian woman, caucasian man couples, but very few Asian man, caucasian woman couples. We keep track of how many we see here in Seattle. i think we are up to 4 now. My boyfriend isn't Asian, but many of his friends are, and he is often assumed to be Asian. Anyway, just wondered if you had any thoughts on this. :)
-Angel
Angel,
Like you I have also noticed the rarity of Caucasian woman/Asian man relationships.
Mommy to Lawson Michael Binghua - born 8/8/06
miscarriage in November 2007 at 7 weeks
miscarriage in April 2008 at 8 weeks
Hi Steph--
People ask me or my boyfriend quite often about his immigration status, which cracks me up (and annoys me a bit) because he is from Guam, which is a US territory. His immigration status is the same as anyone else born in the US! As for his English (which some people also assume must be his second language), that's really all he's ever spoken. Guam's indiginious language isn't really spoken by anyone anymore, and pretty much all he says in it is the occasional swear word, LOL.
I think like you, we get the occasional strange look, but no one has ever come up to us and said anything. It's more friends or acquaintances of mine who will later ask me about him (his language, culture, citizenship). Like your husband, he couldn't be much more American. If only the people who ask that could see him watching football while drinking a budweiser. I think he also surprises people a lot because his bacheclor's degree is in English--he is constantly quoting poems & talking about literature that I have no clue about & that pretty clearly reflect the fact that he was raised & educated in an English speaking society. Fortunately, my family is very accepting, and my boyfriend has said that he doesn't notice that he is the only non-white person when we have dinner there. That was a source of anxiety for me early on, as no one else in my family has had a significant romantic relationship with a non-white person. The one person in my family I worry about is my grandfather, as he tends to objectify Asian women. I have lectured him about this many times to no avail. My boyfriend's daughter is half Filipina, and has very Asian features. I would be extremely upset if my grandfather made some stereotypical comment about Asian women in front of her.
It really gets to me when, like you said, people ask about citizenship/language based on the color of someone's skin. It is so ignorant of the past (and present)! A friend once said something about all American babies being white or something like that. I was very offended. Does that mean that black, Asian and Hispanic babies are less American!? And that should my boyfriend and I have children, they will be less American than other babies?
-Angel
Hi Angel.
Thanks for your reply. I really like Lael too. It sounds very pretty. I'll have to run that by DH.
Hey, just wanted to let you know I'm in Washington too! DH and I both graduated from UW. I think it's great you're in a interracial relationship!!! Seems like Seattle is MUCH more accepting of that than other parts of the US.
-Heather
Our daughter... Tiara LaFaye


Little baby due August 12th, 2005! (Trinity or Terrance)


Hi Heather,
I thought of another L name for you to consider. Layla means "night" in Arabic, and Leyali (pronounced lay-ah-lee, with the a pronounced like the a in apple) means "nights."
I'm at the UW now as a law student. I completed my first two years of law school on the East Coast, but came back to Washington for my last year since I plan to practice in Washington after I graduate, and because I missed the West Coast and my family. I went to the UW for undergrad. My dad, grandfather, and aunt are also all UW graduates, so we are Huskies through and through!
I agree that Seattle is more accepting of interracial relationships than some other parts of the country. My boyfriend and I visited my sister in Utah over Christmas, and let's just say that he was shocked by the lack of diversity and had a fit when we almost missed our plane back to Seattle!
-Angel
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