Why can’t Americans comprehend Chinese names?

Given how tone-based the language is, good luck pronouncing names or words in general correctly without practicing 😅

走开，卡卡普洛普

Wow Mr. Dixie, I didn’t know that you fought and died for this country. So…how did ya die? I bet you bugged the folks in your platoon when you were fighting in Nam and they fragged ya.

Also…how exactly are you posting on a titty club web site? Is Mr. Jack “Curly” Osbourne communicating with you by Ouija board and then posting your thoughts? If so, I’d like to tell Jack that I dig his dad’s music.

Mr. Crowley 🎶

^ Great song!

Americans are the most provincial, the lest knowledgeable with other languages.

SJG

^ Because the rest of the world marches to our beat ;)

^ But that is a zenophobic position, and it cannot possibly stay that way. It is blindness.

SJG

^ But right now, it's the truth. Show me one culture as recognized, respected, and emulated worldwide as America.

The advantage the US has had, besides access to an entire continent, is simply that public funds were used to create a middle-class.

This was done with the free and low cost land, and then later with FDR's progressive taxation, and then later with the GI Bill.

So what White Americans experienced of British colonialism did not involve racism.

Totally oppose of what happened in Latin America where Spanish colonialism was based entirely on racism, and today their societies are completely based on racial heirarchy.

The American Far Right today is based entirely on reaction, not on anything in the least way constructive.

sJG

It's not that uncommon to put the last name first. The Japanese and Koreans do it too. So do Hungarians and some southern Indians.

It is actually standard that the last or family name comes first in Asia.

SJG