Behold, the intellectual firepower on display in the Texas legislature! The occasion is a hearing about voter identification. The man testifying is talking about Chinese voters. The woman interrorgating him is Rep. Betty Brown, a Republican legislator from north Texas. Scroll forward to the 3:25 point for some classic entertainment:
Those inscrutable Asian names
Friday April 10, 2009
Categories: Ah, Texas
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Oh, and it turns out that mass immigration actually retards intermarriage (ht Steve Sailer). Something else to think about, Mr Walker.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/07/AR2009030701841.html?hpid=topnews
Re: I'll believe she's not racist when I hear her complain about Gaelic, Cyrillic and Welsh transliterations.
Celtic names do not have to be transliterated because they use the same alphabet we do. (They may of course be mispronounced still).
I've seen this problem come up with Arabic names too. Is the dictator of Libya Ghadafi, Qadafi or Khadafy? Is it Muhammed or Mohammed? Usama or Osama?
Peking -> Beijing
I rest my case.
I always confuse "Betty" Brown with "Petty" Brown. May I also ask whether "Betty" Brown could change her name to "Petty" Brown so that I can deal with more readily here?
Tom: If her naturalization papers read "Petty Brown" and her driver's license read "Betty Brown", it wouldn't be an unreasonable suggestion.
In my mind, though, a better solution woudl be simply to indicate additionally people's naturalized names on any documents which use a different name ("Hai Nguyen" on the back of "Bobby Wynn"'s driver's licenses, for example).
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