What's in the name?

 

Hi, for those who are new to this blog, my name is Lísye Rizziolli and I would like to share with you a little bit about myself. I was born in Brazil, I'm a journalist and worked for several years in TV production, doing make-up and fashion for TV and hosting news shows. I live in US now and I starting this week a masters degree in communication. Graduate school?? Yeah!!...And my age is not required now, right? I appreciated!

I don't know about you, but I kind of like my name... even than Starbucks vendors miss it all the time. Lizzie, Liz, Lizy....But I’ll tell you something, in my country the subject name is really interesting. As many of you know, Brazilian people are super creative, and the way people name babies or even streets couldn’t be different. Very common in communities, exotic names are one way that parents give to honor a family member or artists and television personalities. And I’m not telling you about national characters, international are super normal too.
My mother was amused when she got pregnant. She always wanted to have baby girl. And now the dream came true.

Then she talked with my father, telling him that she already decided what name she had chosen for me, and he agreed.
When I was old enough to stimulate the curiosity, I start researching about the meaning of my name, but I had never found properly. Then I decided to ask my mom why Lísye, and she was kind of confused about the real meaning, but she said that she liked how it sounds, and that the name itself was short for Elizabeth.So, the name Elizabeth is a Greek baby name. In Greek the meaning of the name Elizabeth is: From the Hebrew Elisheba, meaning either oath of God, or God is satisfaction.
So, the diminutive of it doesn’t mean that God is less “satisfaction” to me, just to be clear!Making an analogy of the text where we find Covarrubias, I do have something correlative. The amount of surnames, relative to paternal and maternal family.I think it is really important that the teacher, knowing that are students from many cultures in their classes, and pronounce the name of your students properly. Many of the negative consequences could be avoided if the teacher spent some minutes in asking the name, and the proper way to pronounce it. But I still think that the students should understand about the culture of the place there are. In the case of Covarrubias, her last name was difficult to pronounce, so she could understand if the teacher didn’t know very well how to pronounce it, knowing the phonetic of English. I mean, flexibility in life is necessary, and the kinds can learn it at home. I have a simple example. My son’s name is Eduardo, but in Brazil we call him Dudu, which is really normal. When we were at the church last year, I called him to came and sit next to me in Sabbath school lessons, using his nickname. The teacher got scandalized when she heard me call him “Dudu”, so she taught me in a respectful way about the meaning of this, and told me that I could adjust his nickname to USA culture. I was thankful for this explanation, because I didn’t want the other kids making fun of this situation.Now comparing to Krolls, I think all the facts is combined into ignorance. And yes, schools should train the teachers so that they understand the diverse cultures and interact wisely.I believe that Covarrubias father was right and wise about the ignorant and mediocre people. We cannot unfortunately expect the world to be wise and educated.The theory is totally different of the reality, and we cannot change all the people. But we can do the difference, and maybe model to others as the Bible says in 1 Timothy 4:12 “Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe”.