I will be Number 6.
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 ...
And when it happens to someone who’s Polish?
“I have an anglicized celtic last name, that ought to be a slam dunk for anglosaxons to pronounce. They get it wrong most of the time.
These people need a life, or barring that, a good, harmless hobby.”
Mine too.....I have often in the back of my mind thought it was an intentional dis but but always shrug it off as being part of life get used to it.
Others should do the same.
So says Ashleyley.
Lack of familiarity is not racism.
The English-language spelling of some Asian names is only an approximation, and not exact, as can be heard sometimes when an Asian person pronounces their name, and it does not sound clearly like most English speakers pronounce it. Sometimes it is even a misunderstanding of the Asian person who chose the English language spelling of their name.
For instance; Many times the Lee name in some Asian languages (mostly Chinese and Korea) sounds somewhat like Yi, though even Chinese or Koreans will spell it Lee, or Li, or Yi and in Korea used to spell it Rhee. And Park, or Pak in Korea is actually spoken more as Bak.
So, it is not “prejudice” but (a) unfamiliarity and (b) lack of uniformity, sometimes when the sounds of Asian names are put into English alphabet characters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO1oBfG59Xw
Key & Peele:
Black substitute teacher taking attendance in a white school. So funny.
“You better be sick, dead or mute if you don’t answer me!”
Juan E-Ca$h sings A Boy Named Hsu.
There were many immigrants who passed the Ellis Island who had their surnames Anglicized or misspelled. My wife’s ancestors had a German name with an umlate over the “u”. Fuhr. However at Ellis Island the umlaut was recorded as the letter “i” twice...Fiihr. My wife’s grandmother was rather irked about this but by then even the family tombstones had the misspelling.
Mine was changed from “Mcraghnail” to Reynolds when my grandfather immigrated here.
I’ve thought of changing it back.
You could always tell who’s “been there, done that” by the way they pronounce Nguyen.
Who dung Wong
Polish & Russian
They should try those sometime.
Or Czech like me? :-))
We had a black substitute once. Scared the crap out of us; the class was really well behaved for the rest of the semester. Must have been a drill sgt or some such, ramrod straight posture, loud voice, followed the lesson plan to a T
Lol. My last name is a simple english word, not very frequently used. Yet I never had a single teacher in school who could pronounce it correctly the first time they saw it. We use my wife’s maiden name when we go to restaurants because they mangle our last name every time.
So I can laugh about it or get indignant and upset and let it ruin my day. I chose the former. Losers choose the latter.
I will be Number 6.
“Such encounters sprout name-based microaggressions”
Need we say more?
All this PC crap is just plain stupid.
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It’s way more than just stupid. It’s insulting, infuriating, coercive, and bullying. And I’m just waiting for one of these trashy little tyrants to approach me with any of that PC crap, because when one does I’m going to make damn sure he/she regrets that mistake for a very long time!
How do you pronounce Crispy Fried Duck?
“These people need a life, or barring that, a good, harmless hobby.”
Really? All they need is a “life” or a “hobby”? The evil forces pulling these puppet strings are meticulously setting up a system for Soviet style Gulags, with US as the “guests”. But I guess just a good old “hobby” would bring them right back to their senses......
Was he ever in Gatlinburg in mid-July?
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