So re: name discourse, I should say that I do in fact have a "Chinese name" that is, in the most technical sense, my "real birth name" (as in I had it before my parents decided on what my name in English would be) And I don't want people to use it
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(FWIW, the people I've found who most reliably "get" this are Jewish people who had "Hebrew school" names -- Chuck Lorre was, in fact, named "Charles" on his birth certificate just like I was "Arthur", even though his "real name" among his older relatives was "Chaim")
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Anyway that's my very small personal contribution to this Discourse about "real names" and pseudonyms I haven't actually had much occasion to use different names in different contexts but everyone from an immigrant culture knows that it's a Thing and that it's personal
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I'm very big on Asian representation and on being proud of where I come from but I'd still experience someone *demanding* my "real name" from me or rewriting my life story to use my "real name" as a hugely invasive, presumptuous act
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Yeah names are so complicated and it is very very weird that we act like there is one “real” name that is appropriate for all situations.
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I (am glad that I) totally missed this. Charlie Sheen (born Carlos Irwin Estévez) yelled at Charles Lorre about birth names? That's up there with Rafael "Ted" Cruz mocking Robert "Beto" O'Rourke for his nickname.
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