Porcupine_I on 05 January 2012
| scottie said: I think I arrived too late and missed all the fun. Why all the removed posts? Anyway, I find it really strange that in Australia, as well as in America, many Asian people living here have taken a 'white' name. They call themselves things along the lines of 'Charles', or other very British, names. It seems a shame to me - when you go over to another country to experience their culture, I think it's nice if you take some of your culture over them for them to experience. I've always puzzled as to why this is done. Is it because it is expected that we'll mispronounce their names? Is it to try to fit in? If anyone is in the situation of doing this (or the reverse, if you are a Caucasian living in Asia and have adopted an 'Asian name) could you let me know your reason for doing so? |
i suppose some of these people live there for many generations, and they would probably do that because they realized it makes their life easier.
you know that people don't call themselves "charles or jim" names are chosen by their parents, and they might have been bullied in school for their "funny names" so they don't want to have their kids suffering the same.
just a thought.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
