The bad street names of those born in the 10s are eroding the new generation of children. How terrible is the convergence of ideas?

Zi Han, Zi Han, Zi Han

Ruixuan, Ruixuan, Ruixuan

Enoch, Yinuo, Yina

Everyone must have seen the above names.

The names of these children, whether read or written, are full of poetry and catchy. All of them carry the parents’ best wishes and meanings.

However, the teachers in the school have always been in trouble: often when one person's name is called, several people stand up.

It doesn’t matter if they have the same name. Wouldn’t adding different surnames distinguish them? It's a pity that the surnames of Zhao Qian, Sun Li, Zhou, Wu and Zheng Wang are all together, and in the end, there can only be a strange phenomenon of "calling one, three or five will rise up".

The helpless teacher could only use the most basic method to make the most fundamental distinction: putting children with the same surname and name into different groups from the beginning , when calling, match the person and name in the manner of "Group X X Zihan".

Things may look funny, but they actually exist and happen before our eyes.

Fortunately, the teachers will find a way and finally solve the problem, but if parents still rush to use the same words when naming their babies in the future, then this The problem will no longer be just a problem of homonymous names in classes and society, but a problem of "convergence" in psychology.

Psychological convergence

Psychological convergence means that there is a part of the human subconscious that is not controlled by the brain and is easy to A physiological tendency manifested in an unconscious state.

To put it simply, in an environment where groups exist, whatever the crowd does, you as an individual will follow suit. For example, when everyone looks at the sky outside the window, you will be curious to see what is happening outside the window, and all these behaviors are influenced by the subconscious mind.

I believe many people have noticed that most of the children born after 10 have the same name.

Just like the example we gave above, when many parents name their babies, they often think of one of the names of the children they hear or see around them. , to use as a reference for your child’s name.

And this information hidden in daily life, after slowly permeating bit by bit, gradually affects people's thinking and feelings, and when people encounter the same situation, , serving as their behavioral guide

This kind of situation not only appears again and again now, but also has appeared and existed in the past.

·In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China

When naming men, they were influenced by the national conditions and propaganda ideology at the time. A large number of names such as "Jianguo", "Jiangjun", "Patriotic", "Resisting America", and "Aiding Korea" appeared. These names not only reflect the social and political situation of our country at that time, but also express the simple patriotism of our fathers.

Although the words are so macro, from today's perspective, or from a more in-depth perspective, these names seem a bit strange because of their political elements. To the point of being anti-human.

The reason why people at that time did not realize it was simply because, under the circumstances of the times, people had a single ideology and had not yet realized the connection between family and even future generations and the country. Destiny, linked by name, what's so special about it.

I simply and passionately believe that naming one's children in the name and expectations of the country is the most passionate and sincere emotion, and it is correct - because at that time Everyone is like this, so I am no exception.

·In the 1980s and 1990s

After experiencing reform and opening up, China gradually got rid of the monocultural ideology and began to See the world from diverse perspectives and understand yourself. With the diversification of culture and the improvement of the knowledge level of Chinese people, the names given to children are becoming more and more beautiful.

Although there is no huge convergence in the names of this period, one sign is very obvious, that is: the shadow of individuality gradually appears in people's names. , names that highlighted the characteristics of the times, especially those that showed political and ideological characteristics, began to gradually disappear.

·Today

It is said that the names of those born after 10 years are getting worse and worse, and the rate of duplicate names is astonishingly high.

This is indeed the case. As we have seen in the previous article, after entering the new era, with the increasing enrichment and improvement of material and spiritual life, people’s attention to names has also increased. Requirements and personalization are also increasingly evident.

As a person’s name and symbol, the most basic requirements are that it sounds nice, is catchy, and means good luck. Therefore, groups with low cultural levels tend to use the same name. similar words to express the same desire and emotion.

Just like the examples we gave earlier: the extensive use of words such as Zi, Xuan, Xuan, Rui, Han, and Nuo is what a certain social group *** Some behavioral characteristics.

The reason why this group of people unanimously choose the same words to name their children is because of the following factors:

1. This type of family often belongs to the same social class 2. The educational level of the parents is not low, but the cultural level is single 3. Influenced by the same group, the behavior and psychology are similar. Although most parents of children with the same name are psychologically influenced Due to the influence of convergence, children's names are given the same words, but some parents still go to the other extreme, that is, they like to show their unique personality in their children's names and repeatedly pursue novelty.

Driven by this desire for difference, favoritism, and fame, rare characters in Chinese suddenly became popular. Often among more than 30 children in a class, more than 20 have names containing rare characters.

There is nothing inappropriate if a rare word becomes a name. However, it is easy to cause embarrassment in daily matters such as inputting in the school education system and filling in forms at work units: the computer system often fails to output, resulting in input errors or substitutions with other homophonic words.

When the matter is small, this is not a big problem; but if it involves personal privacy and important matters such as exams, job entry, etc., it can easily cause losses.

Therefore, based on the above historical and realistic situations, we have summarized some phenomena about names, that is: just on the small matter of naming a baby, people’s psychology There are the following trends in behavior and behavior:

1. Psychological convergence

Susceptible to social influence, unconsciously Follow the trend or reflect the demands of the times.

2. Lack of culture

Blindly chasing the trend, resulting in the child’s name only relying on the literal glyphs instead of Combined with family heritage.

3. Being too unconventional

This kind of psychology is closely related to the impact of the business social environment and shows the tendency to pursue oneself too much. psychology.

Postscript

Phenomenon is often a manifestation of the essence of an event. The name is just a substitute symbol. It refers first to a person in society, and secondly to the family and family behind this person.

When a name cannot convey personal information well and is limited to the literal meaning, its symbolic effect will be compromised. When a name is repeated over and over again with others (with the same pronunciation and the same shape), the original deep meaning it contained will also be lost in the homogeneity.

This effect obviously goes against the original wishes of the parents, and it is not worth the gain.