Why bother leeplying to some foreign born running dog stirring shit here?
Bother to read up about other cultures before making posts like these.
Bother to read up about other cultures before making posts like these.
for much of china's history, winner took all. loser clans were slaughtered, women either became whores or were thrown into harems, children became slaves, and surviving males changed their surnames to those of their new masters or adopted those which were not blacklisted by the winners for extermination. dominant clans passed their genes and names down while loser scumbags hid in hills and die off.
The ongoing presidential illustrates the inadequacy of Chinese surnames adequately. All four candidates are Tans. Useless and meaningless to identify families and clans. When you tell someone, please go and see Mr. Tan (or Lim or Lee etc.), it's meaningless as an address. You need the full name. I'm sure that there're tens of thousands of Tans (or Lims or Lees) out there.
I wonder how the Chinese attach any sense of pride in their surnames. It's like two dozens a penny, two pounds a dime and two tons a dollar all sharing your same surnames.
I struggled with Chinese surnames of my Chinese friends until I gave up, I only remember them by their given names. Every other one is a Tan, Lim or Lee etc. What for remember their surnames?
You're like a frog stuck in a well? Wait till you know the English they have Meacock, Hancock, Peacock and all sort of ----cocks as their surnames and then it's intriguing and confusing.
Guess yuo're right. I stand corrected. It seems they are similar to the Danes, Swedes etc who also have the same convention called the Icelandic naming system.
Once it was asked why were there no telephones in China?
The reason is that there are too many Wings and Wongs you might wing the wong number!
This bugger only targets chinese. What about punjabis? Every male is called singh every female is a kaur.
Btw i remember ram starting a thread like this.
Eh kotek .... coming to the aid of your siamese twin brother ah ..... ??:oIo:
I've never started a thread anything like this. I've only commented that a few years ago PRC was actually looking into the possibility of abolishing one-character surnames starting with one whole generation taking on the combined surnames of both their parents, e.g. Zhanglin, Chenli etc. I remember it has something to do with an DHL ad where the DHL delivery man went to a factory and shouted "here's a package for Mr. Zhang." Half the factory workers came out as all of them are surnamed Zhang. The point of the ad was that DHL is reliable enough to deliver it to the correct Zhang. Anyway, I understand that the idea of surname system overhaul wasn't popular even among communist cadres and faded away.
Another purpose of having a surnames in Chinese/Korean/Japanese or chop-stick society practice beside genealogy is the PREVENTION of inbred or incest-insemination of the same blood.
U are buzzlightyear clone is it!
Simple things like remembering surname also u struggle. How stupid can u get!
I struggled with Chinese surnames of my Chinese friends until I gave up, I only remember them by their given names. Every other one is a Tan, Lim or Lee etc. What for remember their surnames?
There's no point remembering when all are the same.
Bro, are you serious. If you your parents and you grew up in Singapore, it should not be a problem. I can remember my Malay and Indian friends but I admit that Eurasian names are easy.
The interesting thing is that Chinese names have a few common surnames which makes it even easier.
Exactly because there're too many too common and easy. Read my threadstarting post, it defeats the purpose of identifying families. Let's say, in a classroom of ten Tans, eight Lims and six Lees, surnames become meaningless as identitfiers anymore. Even the teachers, I couldn't remember how many Mr. or Mrs. Tan, Lim or Lee I've had. Perhaps I view this from a different wavelength. Surnames are to identitfy families and given names are to identify members in the respective families. Many unrelated Eurasian and western families share similar surnames too, but not to the extent of hundreds of thousands and millions in case of Chinese that four presidential candidates are all of the same surname. I'm not complaining, it's not my problem. I'm just opening this topic for discussion and hopefully, enlightment. Thanks. All opinions welcome, just refrain from profanities please, I'm not anti-Chinese.
There's no point remembering when all are the same.