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Whats your "personal name"

paulofessex
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Police told not to ask people for Christian names. Police in Essex are being advised not to ask people for their Christian names in fear of offending members of other faiths. They have been advised to use the expression whats your peronal name.................

Just where it this craziness going to end!

Source: Evening Echo March 22 2010
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  • HappyMJ
    HappyMJ Posts: 21,115 Forumite
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    I'm now known to the police as "Mywatt"....Madness.
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  • epatolles
    epatolles Posts: 192 Forumite
    personal name... what a load of rubbish! why can't they just ask for the first name? surely that cannot have any non pc implications?

    "can I have your first name... as in the name you write first when you write your whole name out or the name people shout first when they see you in the street?" no doubt it'll be replied to with the persons SURNAME! idiots lol
  • vyle
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    epatolles wrote: »
    personal name... what a load of rubbish! why can't they just ask for the first name? surely that cannot have any non pc implications?

    "can I have your first name... as in the name you write first when you write your whole name out or the name people shout first when they see you in the street?" no doubt it'll be replied to with the persons SURNAME! idiots lol

    Ah, well, first name could confuse the japanese, because in japan, people use their surname first.

    Utada Hikaru (as she's known in the west) is Hikaru Utada back home and also if you were to ask her her name in japan she'd reply "hikaru."
  • ariarnia
    ariarnia Posts: 4,225 Forumite
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    Personally I would have thought 'given name' would have been the most logical non-denominational term.
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  • Annabee
    Annabee Posts: 653 Forumite
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    Yes, and it's the same with the Chinese. And Hungarians too I believe.
  • brokeinyorkshire
    brokeinyorkshire Posts: 263 Forumite
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    It IS ridiculous!!

    I worked in a call centre and we weren't allowed to ask for a Christian name.

    I used to ask for the person's first name not given name, as we needed it for DPA. Just my preference though.

    My Sister once had a Union Jack towel hanging on her washing line and was ' asked ' to remove it as it was insulting certain people!!!!

    Live and let live is my motto!!
    (c) Broke in Yorkshire. ( there are worse places ) :D

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  • epatolles
    epatolles Posts: 192 Forumite
    not long till they get rid of christmas now... i'm leaving before they do!
  • geri1965_2
    geri1965_2 Posts: 8,736 Forumite
    brokeinyorkshire wrote: »
    My Sister once had a Union Jack towel hanging on her washing line and was ' asked ' to remove it as it was insulting certain people!!!!

    Who asked her to remove it?
  • brokeinyorkshire
    brokeinyorkshire Posts: 263 Forumite
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    geri1965 wrote: »
    Who asked her to remove it?

    It was people of a different ethnicity.......
    (c) Broke in Yorkshire. ( there are worse places ) :D

    Those that matter don't mind and those that mind don't matter!
  • VanyaHargreeves
    VanyaHargreeves Posts: 937 Forumite
    @ the chinese/japanese name thing.

    I think the majority of people, if they left those countries, would switch the names around and have their surname last. My parents did and all my family do when they come here on holiday etc. I'm chinese, btw.
    Undergrad law student. Take my advice with a pinch of salt! :rotfl:
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