Staving Tristan:
>Also, there's an awful lot of people who's parents were born in China
>around here who hardly know (can't pronounce it properly and the like)
>what their legal first name (being their Chinese name/s)[1] is and
>refuse to use it and go by their legal second (or third) name (being
>their English name). Though that's a personal choice (assimilating
>themselves, reacting against their parents demands that they learn
>(speak) their Chinese language etc. etc.).
How common is it for Australian-born Chinese to have a combination of
western and Chinese names? I know a British-born first language Cantonese
speaker (her parents speak very little English) and she only has Chinese
names, although they are in Western order (personal name first).
Pete