By Selwyn Duke
Talk about a lack of self-awareness. Last week on ABC’s The View, host Sunny Hostin criticized former United Nations envoy Nikki Haley for going by “Nikki” and not her first name, Nimrata, in an effort to, by Hostin’s lights, hide her ethnicity. Yet maybe the host should go by Glass House Hostin.
After all, Nikki is Haley’s actually middle name.
While Sunny is for Hostin a fake one — her real first name is Asunción.
What’s more, unsaid in the ensuing debate is that while Haley may not be hiding her ethnicity, assimilating by adopting names congruent with your new land is status quo in culturally cohesive (i.e., healthy) nations and could even be considered good manners. Whatever the case, politeness certainly isn’t reigning between the two women: Haley responded to Hostin’s hostility by calling her a “racist.”
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