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Commentary: The casual racism of mispronouncing an Asian person's name
LA Times via MSN ^ | 04/05/2021 | Ashley Lee

Posted on 04/06/2021 1:37:27 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

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To: gunnut

If someone Asian cannot pronounce the name the the bestselling author of Flow, they are casual racists, too.
His name is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

They say it is pronounced Me-High Chick-Sent-Me-High.

I have an educational CD that says it more like Mih-holly Sick-sent-mih-holly.

About the book: His investigations of “optimal experience” have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life.


101 posted on 04/06/2021 5:09:13 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

LOL, it’s “FAV..er...uh” (or however the guy said it in “Something About Mary”!


102 posted on 04/06/2021 5:16:14 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Starring Kam Fong as Chin Ho.


103 posted on 04/06/2021 5:33:50 PM PDT by Fireone (Rush will live in our hearts forever.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Sumthing Wong with this?


104 posted on 04/06/2021 5:49:45 PM PDT by BushCountry (thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
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To: Kid Shelleen

I remember way back in the early days of “PC” some pseudo-intellectual at one of the Cal state universities maybe it was Berkeley put our a list of “offensive “English usage

He included a chink in the armor


105 posted on 04/06/2021 6:14:09 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#LeaveTheGOP. Pass it on Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law they understan)
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To: mfish13

Ding Bang Ow
Wi Tu Loh


106 posted on 04/06/2021 6:16:15 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Kid Shelleen

I married into a Chinese family. When they get together with other Chinese, the racist comments start to fly.


107 posted on 04/06/2021 6:31:25 PM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: NYAmerican

What I meant was that it’s stupid that we give it any credence at all.


108 posted on 04/06/2021 6:42:45 PM PDT by econjack
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To: a fool in paradise
And when it happens to someone who’s Polish?

Welcome to my world.

109 posted on 04/06/2021 6:43:46 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Wuli

It took me a week to pronounce my Hmong buddy’s last name and it was Nguyen. My last name is unpronounceable to anyone not familiar with the old country. Names are not indicative of race.


110 posted on 04/06/2021 9:36:06 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

More leftist “PC” bullshit with a “white guilt trip” built in.

I won’t tell you how many times my last name has been mispronounced in my life time, and somehow I still survived.

Get over it! Sometimes you can politely tell someone how to correctly pronounce your name and everyone will avoid heart-attacks, guilt trips, pronounciation classes, and other totally PC crap.


111 posted on 04/06/2021 11:50:43 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: RedElement

my husband and I always have to spell his last name...its not long but has letters at the end that often get misinterpreted...


112 posted on 04/07/2021 12:25:01 AM PDT by cherry (we are the Remnant)
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To: The Great RJ

I couldn’t figure out how grandmother’s maiden name was pronounced until I saw it misspelled (but phonetically correct) on some document.


113 posted on 04/07/2021 12:30:00 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: Organic Panic

“Names are not indicative of race.”

I see no races, only the human race.

I do see cultures and they are not all the same.


114 posted on 04/07/2021 7:00:00 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Kid Shelleen

People want to use creative spellings of names that violate the norms of English phonics, then want to complain when English-speakers mispronounce their narcissistic fancifications.


115 posted on 04/07/2021 8:17:47 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("One steps out with actresses, one doesn't marry them."—Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh)
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To: BlueLancer
When my family came over from Ireland... the clerk misheard him and used the family name as his first name and a corrupted version of his hometown of Castleigh as the family name ... “Mackenzie Costley” ...

I learned of a Jewish family who came through Ellis Island bound for Canada as their next stop, and were registered under the surname "Kennedy." (approximate Yiddish pronunciation of "Canada")

116 posted on 04/07/2021 8:31:02 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("One steps out with actresses, one doesn't marry them."—Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh)
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