Texas lawmaker says Asians should adopt surnames that are 'easier for Americans to deal with'

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The comments from Republican Rep Betty Brown came on Tuesday, when the state legislature heard testimony from a Chinese-American group on voting difficulties. Asian voters' names are often spelled differently on different documents.

"Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese," Mrs Brown said to a representative from the group, "do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?"

But as a New York City councilman demanded an apology, a spokesman for Mrs Brown defended her, saying she was not making a racially-motivated comment, but simply trying to resolve a problem of voter identification.

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The Texas Democratic Party has called on Mrs Brown to apologise.

In a letter to Mrs Brown sent Thursday, New York City Councilman John C. Liu called on her to either apologize or resign.

"It's outrageous and insulting for you to suggest it would 'behoove' us to adopt another name, to give up our birthright and a part of our own identity, in order to exercise our right to vote," he said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...-deal-with.html

Edited April 11, 2009 by Randomizer

[john & jean 37]

WELL, my American name takes up half of the alphabet, maybe I should adopt a new name???????

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WELL, my American name takes up half of the alphabet, maybe I should adopt a new name???????

I believe it would behoove you.

[john & jean 37]

WELL, my American name takes up half of the alphabet, maybe I should adopt a new name???????

I believe it would behoove you.

I do not have HOOVES!!! However, have been compared to an animal that does

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

WELL, my American name takes up half of the alphabet, maybe I should adopt a new name???????

I believe it would behoove you.

I do not have HOOVES!!! However, have been compared to an animal that does

Do they call you eric?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Only in Texas...savages.

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Only in Texas...savages.

Really. What's wrong with Texas?!?

[john & jean 37]

WELL, my American name takes up half of the alphabet, maybe I should adopt a new name???????

I believe it would behoove you.

I do not have HOOVES!!! However, have been compared to an animal that does

Do they call you eric?

the other end of the beast

[Niels Bohr 72]

What the fukc? This is against freedom of expression. My name is unique. I don't want to be otherwise. I have a complicated name. When someone says it incorrectly, I correct them. And don't mind if the pronounciation is off.

Edited April 11, 2009 by Niels Bohr

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Only in Texas...savages.

Really. What's wrong with Texas?!?

They're not California.

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Only in Texas...savages.

Really. What's wrong with Texas?!?

They're not California.

What the fukc? This is against freedom of expression. My name is unique. I don't want to be otherwise. I have a complicated name. When someone says it incorrectly, I correct them. And don't mind if the pronounciation is off.

It behooves you to stop being such a d1ck.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Only in Texas...savages.

Really. What's wrong with Texas?!?

They're not California.

What the fukc? This is against freedom of expression. My name is unique. I don't want to be otherwise. I have a complicated name. When someone says it incorrectly, I correct them. And don't mind if the pronounciation is off.

It behooves you to stop being such a d1ck.

I love them to pronounce some of the medical terms. Morons Indeed. Stupid legislator.

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I'm just glad you go by 'Neils' here

[Ban Hammer 14,569]

I'm just glad you go by 'Neils' here

but is he really a bore?

[Scott & Lai 12]

If the problem is simply that Asians's names are being spelled differently on different documents, here's a crazy thought, how about asking them the correct spelling before writing it down?? Idiots...