In the early years of Chinese immigration, immigrants created "surname societies" as mutual aid organizations, with the explicit knowledge that any blood relationship was almost certainly fictive but a fictive family association is better than nothinghttps://twitter.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1332102230502096896 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
There's a Wong Benevolent Association in a really run down part of my city. Did a multimedia project on the local Chinatown for University a year ago but didn't get around to including them in the final product. Saw a few other such assoc's during my walks through that area.
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Replying to @constructelf
The article I'm reading has some fun tidbits, like the fact that "Fang" (方) is a fairly uncommon name in China (47th out of the lao bai xing) but it's *extremely* common in San Francisco This is what statisticians call the "founder effect"
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I.e. there were a few people named Fang who immigrated back when immigrants were fairly uncommon and had lots of kids
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