"Arthur" is a Chinese name because I'm Chinese and it's my name (And I don't like my middle name in the sense of actively using it, I just don't particularly try to hide it either, it's in my email address)
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I mean relevant to my situation I always felt self-conscious about having a weird name growing up because I thought of it as "British" and then when I got to college my Jewish roommate said "You're the first Arthur I've met who wasn't someone's Jewish uncle"
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My partner once told me that about Irving, that it was an 'American' name but so many Jewish people used it to assimilate that it became a 'Jewish American' name. I'm not sure what his source for that tidbit was, though.
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I thought it was well known that Chinese immigrants often adopt first names for themselves and their children that are common to the country they move to while preserving their Chinese family name but here we fucking are.
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It's very common knowledge but it creates friction with a fairly large number of annoyingly ignorant white people who care a lot about "real names" and a smaller but more focused group of Asian people who find Asian-Americans politically problematic
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