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Why do Chinese parents give their kids weird ass Anglo names?
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:31 AM Author: Shivering metal parlour Names like Anderson Wong or Franklin Tse or Nigel Chan or Johnson Hsu or Arthur Chu. What's this all about? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343731) |
Date: October 28th, 2021 11:32 AM Author: Wonderful Orchestra Pit ambitious Chinese immigrant parents have a hyper assimilationist mindset they'd love it if their anglo-named kids married white too i suspect |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:32 AM Author: flesh very tactful sweet tailpipe I once met a Sharkskin Wong. He gave me his business card; I heard him right. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343741) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:33 AM Author: Adventurous anal halford university Because they want their kids to fit in to the culture at large and fit in and not give them names L’aQuitvias (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343745) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:36 AM Author: Shivering metal parlour But how is that fitting in? White kids arent given names like that. Its like a caricature (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343760) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:39 AM Author: Adventurous anal halford university To be fair, I don’t see many named “Nigel”. Brian, James, Michael, Jason, all more common. If anything you seem envious they are whiter than you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343780) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:59 AM Author: Shivering metal parlour Not talkin about Brian or Chris or Michael, lol.
Referring to dudes named Harrison Chang and Edison Fong |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:37 AM Author: fragrant mahogany set Jews used to do this 3 generations ago, naming their kids stuff like Irving and Sheldon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343765) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:38 AM Author: Wonderful Orchestra Pit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343772) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:38 AM Author: purple vivacious hunting ground parlor Irving is a direct calque of Erwin which is a common German/Yiddish name. Morris comes from Moritz. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343773) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:42 AM Author: fragrant mahogany set Ok but the point is they didn't want names that sounded super Jewish. They wanted to sound like English gentlemen. Now it's come back the other way and they name their kids Asher and Levi and stuff like that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343792) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:52 AM Author: Adventurous anal halford university Oh yeah we should just be like goyim and name our sons Gayden. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343856) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:41 AM Author: Adventurous anal halford university Jews would also WASPify last names. Like Kirk Douglas had some crazy Jewish name. Many changed names like Rothstein to Redstone, etc. Jews went full WASP. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343788) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:45 AM Author: unhinged step-uncle's house My favorite of the genre is Savage (from Savitch). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343813) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:37 AM Author: razzle spruce business firm hairy legs They give them classic, generic names like Steven, Jonathan and David because their native names are difficult to pronounce for Americans. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343768) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:38 AM Author: coiffed depressive potus East Asians are mostly self hating and wish they were white. Indians and Middle-Eastern people still give their kids names like Pradeep or Mohammed. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343771) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:43 AM Author: razzle spruce business firm hairy legs Asians seem to try harder to assimilate in general. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343799) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:45 AM Author: unhinged step-uncle's house See lot of Persians with names like Jayden Esfahani (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343820) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 11:48 AM Author: Sickened vigorous field Maurice, Stanford, Yale, Lear (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43343832) |
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Date: October 28th, 2021 2:09 PM Author: marvelous factory reset button theatre I knew a Trent, Wellington, Princeton and even a Kevin growing up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4951297&forum_id=2#43344644) |
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