Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias
by retrac on Thursday June 02, 2022 @12:20PM
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There's touches of that elsewhere too (hiding race or ethnicity with a name change.) I have an extremely unusual surname in Canada, and most North Americans don't recognize it as European in origin, which has led to assumptions in the past. My grandfather said he considered changing it to something English in the 50s, but ultimately he kept it. I know that, at least historically, some Christian Arabs, Jewish people, probably others, have adopted "white" names upon immigrating, too.
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Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias
by colechristensen on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:10PM
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Quite a few essentially had Americanized (or for Canada... idk, Canadized? Anglicized? somebody tell me the best word for that :) ) names forced on them upon immigration.
My mother's ancestral Norwegian last name wouldn't have worked particularly well in English, my own last name of Danish origin survived unscathed for obvious reasons.
Depending on the region of Canada, I would say 'anglicized' or 'French-fried.'
Canada is in the Americas, so Americanized seems fine to me.
Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias
by kalimanzaro on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:28AM
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I used to wonder if the name Yingling was Asian, but it turns out to be the same as Yuengling the beer, which is an odd but phonetically correct rendering of Jungling with the umlaut. ("Youngling")
Will Weng, the longtime New York Times crossword editor, throughout his life had people (including me) who thought he was Chinese.
Re:Google cancelled a talk on caste bias
by kalimanzaro on Saturday June 04, 2022 @03:02AM
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That is another Germanic one, probably related to:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_(surname)
>"Europe
Scandinavia
Wang is also an unrelated surname in Sweden and Norway. It is a variant spelling of the name Vang which is derived from the Old Norse word vangr, meaning field or meadow.
Germany and Netherlands
Wang is also a surname in the German and Dutch languages. The name is derived from Middle German wang/ Middle Dutch waenge, which is literally "cheek". However, in southern German, its meaning, "grassy slope" or "field of grass", is similar to the Scandinavian surname."