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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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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My Chinese friend in school told me customers at her family's restaurant sometimes heard her dad using her Chinese name, and tried using it despite her English name being how they already knew her. She'd ignore them, then say it "wasn't really a name." So rude of them!
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