Baby News From China
08.10.08 / Baby Names / Author: glennys
Tags: china, chinese baby names
China has 1.3 billion people who share approximately 100 surnames. A disadvantage of these numbers is that police work is hindered. The Public Security Commission is thinking of making new rules so that children will take the surnames of both their mother and father, in a hyphenated form. They figure this will create 1.28 million new surnames.
While the hyphen has been allowed, other punctuation marks are not allowed. One Chinese man wanted to give his child the name “@”, but because it cannot be translated into Mandarin, he was not given permission to use that symbol. He thinks because it is on the computer keyboard, “@” should be fair game. How would you pronounce that anyway? At?
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It’s a mystery to me why people seem to reject their own culture and heritage. I’ve also heard stories about Asians who want to have their eyes altered to look more “American”. There are many things about ancient Chinese culture that are good and valuable, and many opportunities to improve Western culture. Everything isn’t as it appears in the movies. Asian eyes are beautiful just the way they are.