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April 10, 2009 04:32 AM UTC

At least she's not our rep

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  • by: DavidThi808

Shades of Tom Tancredo, from the Houston Chronicle

A North Texas legislator during House testimony on voter identification legislation said Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are “easier for Americans to deal with.”



“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese – I understand it’s a rather difficult language – do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.

Brown later told Ko: “Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”

Everyone mis-pronounces “Thielen” – should I change my last name to something simple, like Lee (most common surname in China)?

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6 thoughts on “At least she’s not our rep

  1. … yeah, just like mine — Doby.  Pronounced Doh-bee. Simple, right?

    And yet 90% of the time for people that don’t know me, I hear it pronounced or spelled:  Dolby, Dobbie, Doobie … including at the polls when I vote!

    I can only imagine the creative mangling that clueless Texas legislator would come up with.

    But at least it wasn’t “corrected” at Ellis Island like the ancestors of two of my friends.

  2. 10-4 buddy thats a big bujerdao.  Chinese is not that hard to pronounce.  It takes about 10 minutes to learn the pinyin romanization system, then you’re all set for pronouncing chinese words spelled out in our alpahbet.  But yes, thats’ too much work for us Amuricans.

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