My theory: 1. East Asian immigrants skew more Christian (accounts for some names at least) 2. South Asian names are a bit easier to pronounce on avg 3. There are available American-sounding SAsian names (Neal, Vik, etc)
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I think the 2nd is the most valid. English is Indo-European language after all
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Most Americans can pronounce South Asian names corrctly?pic.twitter.com/DwzRZCCjxz
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East Asian names are traditionally in non-Latin characters (Hanzi, Kanji/Hiragana/Katakana, Hangul), which necessitates finding a new name with alphabets.
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South Asian names also are written in a script that does not use Latin characters. This is my name in Hindi - आदित्य.
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wrote about this here. i don’t really think this “integration” practice even helped that much, esp if you look at ethnic distributions of say, tech leadership. In Golden Globes most influential asians list, there were only ~4 e. asians with eastern names https://twitter.com/ju_sung_lee/status/1112450419614089217?s=21 …https://twitter.com/ju_sung_lee/status/1112450419614089217 …
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i won’t rag on east asians who’ve adopted this practice; my name is pretty easy to pronounce and east (and *especially* southeast) asians have faced, in my opinion, more systematic discrimination (Geary, Chinese Exclusion Act, etc) which warrants this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Chinese_legislation_in_the_United_States …
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I think you'll find this Freakonomics ep. interesting: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-much-does-your-name-matter-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/ … TLDR: 1. Names don't matter 2. Parents choose their child's name to impress their friends.
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