Posted on 04/06/2021 1:37:27 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
The Times recently reported on the outcry following the L.A. theater community's Ovation Awards, where organizers mispronounced the name of an Asian American nominee and displayed a photo of the wrong actor.
If anyone doubts the racially based sting that comes with such insults to one's professional endeavors, just read the emails that rolled in to The Times after publication of our article. One reader said the Ovation reaction was just an example of "Asian victimhood."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
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.
LOL, it’s “FAV..er...uh” (or however the guy said it in “Something About Mary”!
Starring Kam Fong as Chin Ho.
Sumthing Wong with this?
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
Ding Bang Ow
Wi Tu Loh
I married into a Chinese family. When they get together with other Chinese, the racist comments start to fly.
What I meant was that it’s stupid that we give it any credence at all.
Welcome to my world.
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.
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.
my husband and I always have to spell his last name...its not long but has letters at the end that often get misinterpreted...
I couldn’t figure out how grandmother’s maiden name was pronounced until I saw it misspelled (but phonetically correct) on some document.
“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.
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.
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")
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