YOU people and your names

[Mike Oxlong]

Texas lawmaker suggests Asians adopt easier names

A North Texas legislator during House testimony on voter identification legislation said Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are “easier for Americans to deal with.”

The comments caused the Texas Democratic Party on Wednesday to demand an apology from state Rep. Betty Brown, R-Terrell. But a spokesman for Brown said her comments were only an attempt to overcome problems with identifying Asian names for voting purposes.

The exchange occurred late Tuesday as the House Elections Committee heard testimony from Ramey Ko, a representative of the Organization of Chinese Americans.

Ko told the committee that people of Chinese, Japanese and Korean descent often have problems voting and other forms of identification because they may have a legal transliterated name and then a common English name that is used on their driver’s license on school registrations.

Easier for voting?
Brown suggested that Asian-Americans should find a way to make their names more accessible.

“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.

Brown later told Ko: “Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”

Democratic Chairman Boyd Richie said Republicans are trying to suppress votes with a partisan identification bill and said Brown “is adding insult to injury with her disrespectful comments.”

Brown spokesman Jordan Berry said Brown was not making a racially motivated comment but was trying to resolve an identification problem.

Berry said Democrats are trying to blow Brown’s comments out of proportion because polls show most voters support requiring identification for voting. Berry said the Democrats are using racial rhetoric to inflame partisan feelings against the bill.

“They want this to just be about race,” Berry said.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas ... 550512.php

[wagyl]

If it is an identification problem just assign every US citizen a number and be done with it. Tattoo it on their wrists to save them the hassle of carrying around a card.

[dimwit]

In my home town there is a huge number of Tamils, and I remember having to do census work when I was a student, and Jesus, a few of those names really could do with a clipping.

[wagyl]

In my home town there is a huge number of Tamils, and I remember having to do census work when I was a student, and Jesus, a few of those names really could do with a clipping.

Chop off all their lingams?

[dimwit]

Chop off all their lingams?

More like chop off a few fucking adjectives

Tamils like adjectives & epithets. For instance, while a north Indian might be just "Ram", a Tamil has to be a "Kodhanda" Raman, "Venkata" Raman, "Pattabi" Raman, "Sundar" Raman, Sita Raman...

Given that everyone knows that Lord Ram looked awesome, was crowned, had a big bow, married Sita, are not these adjectives moot and super-fluent? If we find such names as Vasan, we will immediately work hard to add bandages to make it at least a little bigger, say SriniVasan. What would have been 3 dudes: Siva, Ram, Krish in north India, we pack it all in one dude: Sivarama Krishnan. No God left unloved.

When we add our place name, we often make sure it is prefixed with the honorific "Thiru" and when Sankrit names are used, we often add the suffix "an". Like scope creep in a project, our names have "title" creep.

You cannot just be any Nath (leader), but has to be a "Viswa" nathan, "Jaga" nathan and what not. I'm happy enough to be a leader, why have "world leader" in my name? It is hard to find a traditional Tamil name without all the adjectives.

http://www.quora.com/Why-are-South-Indi ... often-long

[wagyl]

Mr Sivalingam = Shiva's penis.

[matsuki]

If it is an identification problem just assign every US citizen a number and be done with it. Tattoo it on their wrists to save them the hassle of carrying around a card.

Like a social security number? Who'da thunk?

Sorta on topic but many of the fobby k-girls I met int he US chose "glamorous white people" names that they couldn't even pronounce themselves and sounded nothing like their rather easy to pronounce legal Korean names. (some sort of status symbol?) At the end of the day, the looks of utter confusion they got by Americans of non-asian descent didn't seem to jive with the result this Brown is expecting.

[dimwit]

Mr Sivalingam = Shiva's penis.

Mo better: Mr Thirusivakodhandalingam =Honourable Shiva's awesome penis.

[matsuki]

How about Shiva's majestic penis? Assuming the extra details are needed

[Coligny]

how aboot "fisting tentacle rape of death" ?

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[wuchan]

Texas lawmaker suggests Asians adopt easier names

A North Texas legislator during House testimony on voter identification legislation said Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are “easier for Americans to deal with.”

The comments caused the Texas Democratic Party on Wednesday to demand an apology from state Rep. Betty Brown, R-Terrell. But a spokesman for Brown said her comments were only an attempt to overcome problems with identifying Asian names for voting purposes.

The exchange occurred late Tuesday as the House Elections Committee heard testimony from Ramey Ko, a representative of the Organization of Chinese Americans.

Ko told the committee that people of Chinese, Japanese and Korean descent often have problems voting and other forms of identification because they may have a legal transliterated name and then a common English name that is used on their driver’s license on school registrations.

Easier for voting?
Brown suggested that Asian-Americans should find a way to make their names more accessible.

“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.

Brown later told Ko: “Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”

Democratic Chairman Boyd Richie said Republicans are trying to suppress votes with a partisan identification bill and said Brown “is adding insult to injury with her disrespectful comments.”

Brown spokesman Jordan Berry said Brown was not making a racially motivated comment but was trying to resolve an identification problem.

Berry said Democrats are trying to blow Brown’s comments out of proportion because polls show most voters support requiring identification for voting. Berry said the Democrats are using racial rhetoric to inflame partisan feelings against the bill.

“They want this to just be about race,” Berry said.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas ... 550512.php

five years after she was chased out of office..........

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