- Pregnancy
- Baby & Toddler
- Parents
- Getting Pregnant
- Baby Names
- Product Reviews
-
Registry
- Community
-
More
Want a personalized experience?
Download the free app
Babies: 9 - 12 Months
lol, my 3rd wtf post of the day-- Texas
You Asians with your difficult names, you! My favorite part is the sentence I boldfaced in the middle.
https://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6365600.html
AUSTIN, Texas ? The Texas Democratic Party demanded an apology Wednesday from state Rep. Betty Brown, R-Terrell for suggesting Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are "easier for Americans to deal with."
Brown made the comments on Tuesday evening as the House Elections Committee discussed voter identification legislation, the Houston Chronicle reported in its online edition.
Brown spokesman Jordan Berry said Brown was not making a racially motivated comment but was trying to resolve an identification problem.
Ramey Ko, a representative of the Organization of Chinese Americans, told the committee that people of Chinese, Japanese and Korean descent often have problems voting and with forms of identification because there may be a difference in their legal transliterated name and a common English name used on their driver's license.
"Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese ? I understand it's a rather difficult language ? do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?" Brown asked, the newspaper reported.
She later told Ko: "Can't you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that's easier for Americans to deal with?"
Democratic Chairman Boyd Richie said Republicans are trying to suppress votes with a partisan identification bill and said Brown "is adding insult to injury with her disrespectful comments."
Berry said Democrats are trying to blow Brown's comments out of proportion because polls show most voters support requiring identification for voting.
"They want this to just be about race," Berry said.
This discussion has been closed.
Re: lol, my 3rd wtf post of the day-- Texas
I just posted this article on FB! I mean, really can we say racist?? I can't believe anyone would say something that absurd out loud...like, "hey, no one will think this is racist or a blatant act of discrimination!"
however...not surprised
In my own experience and study, Chinese is actually EASIER to learn than related languages to English because you aren't going to confuse phonemic distinctions and you have to learn new word order and tones and cannot rely on English cognates to get you by. I LOVED studying Chinese. YES lets DO all learn Chinese FFS.
If he moved to China do you think he'd adopt the name Wong? I don't think so either.
lol i read that same thing on another board "wait if i teach english in china would they make me change my name to xian wong?"
it is ridiculous, but then again - i didnt know any asian kid growing up who ACTUALLY used their given name. it was always odd the first day of school - "no, i go by mary"
This is why people think all Texans are stupid. I guess I should change my mexican last name too, with that kind of thinking. Actually, probably my first name too, since nobody seems to be able to pronounce it either.
I have other beefs with TX that I won't go into...
But yeah, all of my friends go by their chinese names. I have no problem calling him Jiang (Gee-ong), I have a professer named Jie (Gee-yeah) What is so hard about that? Akiko my japanese friend? Ronia my Jordanian friend? Atef? these are not hard names...I repeat WTF.
I also LOVE how they are trying to say it's not racist..."it will just be easier". Um....you know what would be easy? for you to STFU!
What's funny is this line of thinking basically says, "we're too egocentric to bother with your culture....mmmk"