Of course not, I never claimed any monopoly ownership of anything but MY OWN NAME
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Replying to @arthur_affect
You just did by calling a common surname "Chu" as American. "Chu" is not yours, hundreds of millions of other "Chu"s around, no?
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Replying to @taro_taylor
I made no statement about anyone else who has "Chu" as their last name (which could be derived from many different Chinese surnames) Only about myself
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Replying to @arthur_affect
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Replying to @taro_taylor
Yeah, my name "Chu" is an American surname because I'm an American For someone else who's not an American, it isn't Why is that such a big deal I mean you know thanks to sloppy romanization "Chu" could be derived from dozens of Chinese surnames
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Replying to @arthur_affect @taro_taylor
Look even trying to seriously entertain the idea of classifying names by ethnicity is filled with ambiguity There's plenty of names that we stereotype as "Jewish names" in the US that obviously aren't actually specifically "Jewish", just German or Polish or Russian
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Replying to @arthur_affect @taro_taylor
What's the name "David", is it a Hebrew name or an English name or an American name Is 孫中山's name a Japanese name (it comes from the kanji rendering of his pseudonym while in hiding in Japan, Nakamura)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @taro_taylor
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @taro_taylor
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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Replying to @witmol @taro_taylor
Yeah there's a lot of irony that a lot of names "switched places" this way, that a lot of popular "Bible" names get thought of as all-American Gentile names - Ben, Josh, Dave, Rachel, Becky, Mary
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And then, on the flip side, Jewish immigrants seeking to assimilate picked a bunch of names they associated with Gentile prestige and did it so much they became "Jewish names" Roman emperor names like Maximilian (Max) and Augustus (Gus) The very English name of King Arthur
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