On Apr 15, 10:25 pm, "J.Venning" > wrote:
> "pg" > wrote in message
>
> ...> 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.


Noted. But that "Raymond" banana really needs some updates. Banana is
banana, nothing else matters.