User blog comment:Raraahahahromaromamagagaoohlala/Should the NHC include ethnic minority names on the lists?/@comment-47444-20181012225143

I actually don't agree for two reasons. Firstly, the names of the storms are supposed to be easily recognizable to regions which are widely affected in each basin and it should stay that way. We have seen previously that names which differ any bit often end up offending countries outside the basin (Adolf, Isis, Israel in the EPAC, Frances in the Atlantic) for example. Secondly by adding foreign names it will probably lead to misuse and potentially ugly sensationalising. For example Arabic or Middle Eastern names would almost certainly be used by certain media outlets in the U.S. to conflate disasters with Islamic terrorists and whatnot which would perpetuate stereotypes and racism. Since we can't expect the WMO to be sensitive to how names will be interpreted across cultures it should just stay focus on regionally appropriate names.