{"id":26320,"date":"2009-04-12T15:43:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T15:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/12\/if-only-their-names-werent-so\/"},"modified":"2009-04-12T15:43:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T15:43:51","slug":"if-only-their-names-werent-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/12\/if-only-their-names-werent-so\/","title":{"rendered":"If only their names weren&#8217;t so funny and hard to pronounce&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with those dang ethnic people is that you can&#8217;t even pronounced their names.  Regarding the difficulty some Chinese and other east Asian people have with conflicts in their own naming system and the naming system assued by, for instance, a state&#8217;s Motor Vehicle department, Texas (where else) State Representative Betty Brown says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese &#8212; I understand it&#8217;s a rather difficult language &#8212; do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here? &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;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&#8217;s easier for Americans to deal with?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In reporting this story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministing.com\/archives\/014739.html\">Feministing<\/a> has suggested that maybe it&#8217;s Betty Brown who should change her name so that it is easier for the rest of us to deal with, and asks for suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>So, any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with those dang ethnic people is that you can&#8217;t even pronounced their names. Regarding the difficulty some Chinese and other east Asian people have with conflicts in their own naming system and the naming system assued by, for instance, a state&#8217;s Motor Vehicle department, Texas (where else) State Representative Betty Brown says: Rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/12\/if-only-their-names-werent-so\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If only their names weren&#8217;t so funny and hard to pronounce&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[61,306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Qw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}