I don't know of any Anglo sportscaster who can pronounce Patrick Roy's name correctly, and that's just one player. Are we going to start hanging them too?
When I lived overseas, I would pronounce my name in the local accent. It didn't bother me that it was wrong. I wanted it to be convenient for them, not a burden. That's how you establish ground with people in other cultures. Change your manners to theirs, to some extent.
If this narsasist bothered to look around while she was growing up she would have noticed that many other children were being teased, harrassed, beaten up, etc. She would have noticed if she didn't spend 12 years obsessing about nothing.
It's a fact of growing up. I grew up amongst a population of 90% white. POC really didn't get very much negative attention during my years. It was below the average. The most memorable moment was one East Indian getting called a name, he got mad and shit in the wash basin, the black custodian got really mad and demanded to know who did it. We ratted him out because we liked the custodian and the kid got nicknamed shitfly for what he did. He left the school because of it.... cause racism.
We did way way worse to each other than this. Way fucking worse ?
We were like WTF when we heard it was all about the very shortly used nickname.
Fucking people in the last 50 years. Shouldn't even be able to tell they are POC with skin that thin.
In my school in the late 2000's the victims of bullying were the awkward/nerdy white boys.
The athletic black boy was a magnet for all the girls.
The immigrant kids were hard to socialize with as they learned english, but we tried. And the instances when they were picked on were entirely by other immigrants.
Makes you wonder how the fuck we ended up in the 2020/2021 fiasco we're in.
The trajectory we were on naturally would have meant we should be experiencing the least race issues, not one of the most.
... thanks Trudeau, CBC, CTV, all the Universities, most all Corporations etc. etc. and of course a special thanks to the lead drinking population that follows Covidian Globo-Nationalists.
When I lived in Korea it was hard for them to pronounce my (very common) English name, so I shortened to a one syllable nickname that is easier for them to pronounce. Any name with R/L or that ends in an aspirated consonant will be hard for Koreans to say.
Wow the horror... I had to adapt to my surroundings.
The problem is many Asian languages including Korean do a really shit job of transliterating their language into English writing. Korean last names like "Park" or "Choi" sound nothing like how they are said in their language which would be more like "Pack" and "Chway".
This is dumb
I use my full complete English + Asian name legally, and just the English one for daily communication. It's a fucking name, change it if you don't like it..jesus christ
I'm white, with part of my name not being English. Not a single white person I knew growing up could pronounce it properly without being corrected, nor could people of most other races for that matter. I never got offended or agitated, in fact I found it fairly amusing. I also had friends with very asian names and rather than whining about how I didn't know how to pronounce them initially, they corrected and taught me how to understand names from those cultures.
I'm white, with part of my name not being English. Not a single white person I knew growing up could pronounce it properly without being corrected, nor could people of most other races for that matter. I never got offended or agitated, in fact I found it fairly amusing. I also had friends with very asian names and rather than whining about how I didn't know how to pronounce them initially, they corrected and taught me how to understand names from those cultures.
I'm white, with part of my name not being English. Not a single white person I knew growing up could pronounce it properly without being corrected, nor could people of most other races for that matter. I never got offended or agitated, in fact I found it fairly amusing. I also had friends with very asian names and rather than whining about how I didn't know how to pronounce them initially, they corrected and taught me how to understand names from those cultures, and I found it enlightening.
I don't know of any Anglo sportscaster who can pronounce Patrick Roy's name correctly, and that's just one player. Are we going to start hanging them too?
My name sounds like an automotive part from the Flintstones. But it's actually how I was conceived, a car bone. I am not ashame.
When I lived overseas, I would pronounce my name in the local accent. It didn't bother me that it was wrong. I wanted it to be convenient for them, not a burden. That's how you establish ground with people in other cultures. Change your manners to theirs, to some extent.
If this narsasist bothered to look around while she was growing up she would have noticed that many other children were being teased, harrassed, beaten up, etc. She would have noticed if she didn't spend 12 years obsessing about nothing.
It's a fact of growing up. I grew up amongst a population of 90% white. POC really didn't get very much negative attention during my years. It was below the average. The most memorable moment was one East Indian getting called a name, he got mad and shit in the wash basin, the black custodian got really mad and demanded to know who did it. We ratted him out because we liked the custodian and the kid got nicknamed shitfly for what he did. He left the school because of it.... cause racism.
We did way way worse to each other than this. Way fucking worse ?
We were like WTF when we heard it was all about the very shortly used nickname.
Fucking people in the last 50 years. Shouldn't even be able to tell they are POC with skin that thin.
In my school in the late 2000's the victims of bullying were the awkward/nerdy white boys.
The athletic black boy was a magnet for all the girls.
The immigrant kids were hard to socialize with as they learned english, but we tried. And the instances when they were picked on were entirely by other immigrants.
Makes you wonder how the fuck we ended up in the 2020/2021 fiasco we're in.
The trajectory we were on naturally would have meant we should be experiencing the least race issues, not one of the most.
... thanks Trudeau, CBC, CTV, all the Universities, most all Corporations etc. etc. and of course a special thanks to the lead drinking population that follows Covidian Globo-Nationalists.
When I lived in Korea it was hard for them to pronounce my (very common) English name, so I shortened to a one syllable nickname that is easier for them to pronounce. Any name with R/L or that ends in an aspirated consonant will be hard for Koreans to say.
Wow the horror... I had to adapt to my surroundings.
The problem is many Asian languages including Korean do a really shit job of transliterating their language into English writing. Korean last names like "Park" or "Choi" sound nothing like how they are said in their language which would be more like "Pack" and "Chway".
This is dumb
I use my full complete English + Asian name legally, and just the English one for daily communication. It's a fucking name, change it if you don't like it..jesus christ
I'm white, with part of my name not being English. Not a single white person I knew growing up could pronounce it properly without being corrected, nor could people of most other races for that matter. I never got offended or agitated, in fact I found it fairly amusing. I also had friends with very asian names and rather than whining about how I didn't know how to pronounce them initially, they corrected and taught me how to understand names from those cultures.
But it's just easier to play victim I suppose.
I'm white, with part of my name not being English. Not a single white person I knew growing up could pronounce it properly without being corrected, nor could people of most other races for that matter. I never got offended or agitated, in fact I found it fairly amusing. I also had friends with very asian names and rather than whining about how I didn't know how to pronounce them initially, they corrected and taught me how to understand names from those cultures.
But it's just easier to play victim I suppose.
I'm white, with part of my name not being English. Not a single white person I knew growing up could pronounce it properly without being corrected, nor could people of most other races for that matter. I never got offended or agitated, in fact I found it fairly amusing. I also had friends with very asian names and rather than whining about how I didn't know how to pronounce them initially, they corrected and taught me how to understand names from those cultures, and I found it enlightening.
But it's just easier to play victim I suppose.
Željko?
Back in Korea they'll also make fun of her big time for being westernized, and probably having shitty fashion and makeup style and tanned skin.