(no subject)

[politicking.livejournal.com]

The place I work employs about 50-60 foreign students every Summer. The Taiwanese students have already adopted American names to go by while they are here. Here is a list of their actual name, and then their American name in parenthesis.

Li-Sun Kuo (Latitia)
Yu-Sui Lin (Angela)
Chien-Chiu Sui (James)
Chen-Chi Chuang (Daniel)
Chih-Yu Lin (Jennifer)
Ting-Wei Hsu (Chris)
Jo-An Lin (Joanne)
Chia-Yo Shih (Chindy)

Comments

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

I think Li-Sun is prettier than Latitia. I like the name James. It's interesting that, for the most part, the names they pick seem to be just random names they like, not matching the first initial or anything.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

Interesting names! It's funny, but they don't seem to follow the pattern that I've noticed where I live. A lot of foreign students here choose much older-sounding names than their peers. The same goes for a lot of children of recent(ish) immigrants. Example:

Linda
Cecelia
Lisa
Winnie

(All of these people would be born in the 1980s and 1990s, but I'd say the names are a lot older).

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

Very interesting choices. I know a lot of Chinese-American Jennifers. They say it was easy for their families to pronounce.

I like Li-Sun a lot better that Latitia...