Because this name ACTUALLY IS MY NAME, it's the one I ACTUALLY USE and always have
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Replying to @arthur_affect @taro_taylor
"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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Replying to @arthur_affect
How is Arthur a Chinese name? I can call myself Ronaldo but it doesn't mean Ronaldo is a Chinese name now, does it?
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Replying to @taro_taylor
Like I said, it's a Chinese name because I'm Chinese and it's my name Just like "Chu" is an American surname because I am an American and it is my surname
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Replying to @arthur_affect
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 @taro_taylor
By calling it an American surname you are generalising from your single case. If you want you could say it is an American's name.
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Replying to @Hubei_Peasant @taro_taylor
I don't think you really understand what I am saying, which is that I don't care
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Jesus Christ for fuck's sake think about it for half a second American surnames *don't exist*, Native cultures didn't have any conception of a monolithic "America" before colonization, and the colonists and immigrants who created the USA all came from somewhere else
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Were "Washington" and "Jefferson" American surnames? They obviously existed before there was an America, and are surnames from England, which for a while was America's enemy in war When Eisenhower led US forces against Germany he did so with a German surname
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Of course I know that in practice the USA is treated by many people as a white ethnostate even though it's not supposed to be, and it's only over time that people with Italian, Irish, Spanish, etc surnames get folded into "real Americanness" What I am saying is this is bullshit
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