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So today, on my way to the polling place for the general election, a woman with a little boy on her hand is walking the other way.
She told the boy in a motherly manner to watch his step, or she might let go of him and he'd fall. Sidewalk was wavy from tree roots under it in that spot.
What's so noteworthy about it?
The woman was dressed up like a regular, run of the mill, fairly conservative Turkish Muslim. Headscarf, long heavy skirt, bulky coat and all. Looking at her, as racist as this may make me sound, with her complexion and all, she'd have fitted in perfectly with the considerable ethnic Turk population around here.
What's so noteworthy about it?
Not that the kid was pale as yoghurt, lots of Turks are.
It's that she called the kid Levi.
I have even looked it up, couldn't find any evidence in a hurry that Levi is a name usually given to their kids by Muslims.

She could have been watching for someone else's kid, of course. Or she could have picked that name without any thought to religious meaning, just going with what's popular. Or any other set of circumstances.
But no matter the exact details, it struck me as a neat little example of multi-culturalism at work.

If popular names over by you are anything close to what is popular here, I think you can rule that out.

I've just researched it a little.
Turns out, since 2010, Levi is among the 100 most popular given names for boys, would you believe.

That kid might have been three or four, so it may well have been a popularity issue.
However ... Alevites, as the vast majority of Turkish migrants over here are/were, and their kids and grandkids often are, the conservative ones in particular, picking a name for popularity, one such entirely non-Muslim, too ... integration, or rather the failure thereof, is a hot topic over here. But this, this gives me a little hope.