Just Change It?

[littlebitca]

A week or so ago you may recall a news item about a Texas State Representative who suggested that Asian-Americans should change their names because they're too hard to pronounce and came under some major outrage and mockery for this.

The irony, it burns.

Comments

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

Wow, I couldn't imagine losing my name. Our dad named all three of us kids, and my sister's is fairly unique-- at least, I've never run across another person with it. The characters themselves aren't too obscure, though.

I personally find English made-up names fairly atrocious (Rayvyn??) but Chinese parents put a LOT of thought and research into giving their kids unique names. I'd hate for us as a culture to lose that part of our identity. Conform or be undocumented.

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

I found it astonishing that the solution was to tell people to change their names -- order, really, because I suspect that ID card is mandatory -- rather than putting the rest of the characters into the database. They used less than 60%? I can only imagine deciding to simplify English names by only using 16 letters.