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Re: CHAT: cultural interpretation [was Re: THEORY: language and the brain]

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Monday, July 7, 2003, 9:17
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

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