“It’s a strange concept, that someone could get flagged for doing something out of the ordinary by doing one of the most ordinary, quotidian things — pronouncing her own name,” Ramón Antonio Martínez, an associate professor at Stanford University.
The New York congresswoman also tweeted that in Latino culture, children sometimes take both their parents’ names and that those who address her simply as “Cortez” are incorrect in doing so.
Darling Gutierrez, 23, who works as a paralegal, struggled with how to pronounce her name in a way that was more accessible for native English speakers. “In my opinion, by English-izing her name they are showing that they cannot pronounce simple names, not challenging or difficult names,” Flores said. “Ocasio-Cortez is pronounced the way it appears, phonetically — it’s as easy as Smith.
“Her critics are threatened by cultural diversity so it’s part of a larger effort to discredit her,” Martínez said. “But it’s a desperate attempt at doing it — marking her for pronouncing her name correctly.” But it's not only the mispronunciation of Ocasio-Cortez’s name that Flores sees as problematic, but the constant abbreviation of her name.
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