Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27447621-20160730160356/@comment-25936766-20160730210701

HighCastle67 wrote:

I was looking up the meaning of the names Jones and found originally it was not very popular until England separated from the Catholic Church and banned catholic names. In Wales, they were being forced to adapt to the english language, and after the separation, they were limited to few names. Some other politics forced them to take names like Jones, meaning son of John. A lot of people quickly started practicing this and the name became very popular.

It's not the most positive example, but it proves it's not impossible for large groups of people to suddenly begin changing their names after a historical event. And that's what the Great War of Remnant. Political idealogies causing a sudden major shift in social lives. Yes, but you like you say multiple times in those paragraphs: They were forced to do so. Forced, against their will, not their choice.

No such thing happened once the CNR appeared. No one was forced to do anything, they did it on their own free will (and forcing people to do it would go against the idea the CNR represented).

People named their children after colors because they wanted to, and decided to do so, and in present times people keep doing so out of cultural tradition. It's different from the government forcing people to change their names "because you must" or "because X names are banned".