But My friend also has a surname "Chu" but he is from China, do you get to monopolise a surname as well just b'cos you are American?
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Replying to @taro_taylor
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 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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Replying to @slhamlet @taro_taylor
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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The former is a much more common annoyance in daily life, but the latter, as we can see, has much more stamina for arguing with people on Twitter
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This one also doesn’t seem to understand simple logic. For example, that something like a name (can be both American and Chinese at the same time).
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Replying to @pagalpanchi @arthur_affect and
It also seems likely that it arises at least in part from a feeling of insecurity about one's identity, which I understand and empathize with.
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