"pg" > wrote in message
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> Is "Raymond" a Chinese name?
> If a "Raymond" tells you that he is a Chinese, would you believe that?
> There are Chinese and then there are bananas. Real Chinese don't use
> banana name, such as "Raymond".
> On the other hand, banana can't help but have to use their banana
> names, for fear of being told to "go back to your boat".
> Banana is banana. Yellow skin outside, white shit inside.
>
Many Chinese living in the West have non-Chinese-sounding first names.
This is primarily to facilitate the pronunciation by Westerners who have
trouble in reading and pronouncing Chinese names. Personally I had to change
my Chinese name to my present one, because I was born in Indonesia, and
during the purge of the Chinese there in the early 60's, the Indonesian
government made it illegal for any Chinese to keep his/her Chinese name, in
an effort to wipe out the Chinese identity amongst the Overseas Chinese
living there; fortunately I emigrated to England. Again, your statement
makes it very difficult for anyone to believe that you have been in China.
Many Chinese in China now adopt English-sounding first names, a few of whom
have taken random choices with some very amusing results.
J.