Comments by "Oldshoes" (@oldshoes4290) on "Hong Kong by the numbers, 25 years after the handover" video.

  1.  @ichigodragon.  So that non-Chinese speaking people have an easier time pronouncing their names?
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  2.  @ichigodragon.  Wrong. Asian Americans, Taiwanese, heck, pretty much any Americanized or abroad individual is going to have an English name. This is partly because of former colony culture and partly because its easier for English speaking folk to communicate with them. This is also why many non English speaking people commit themselves to learning English, whereas native English speakers generally don't since they don't have plans to move abroad or find themselves in a position where they have to speak a foreign language in their daily lives on a daily basis. Whether or not it is "cringe worthy" is subjective. To think so in my opinion is quite ignorant, I sincerely hope you don't express yourself like to everyone you meet :) "Yet "Michael" made it clear the mainland Chinese don't like to speak English." There is a difference between speaking an entirely foreign language and taking on a foreign name for ease of communication. You're generalizing by the way. "They can always take Japanese sounding names." And why would they do that...?
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  3.  @ichigodragon.  Moving the goalpost? ...What? "Never seen the Japanese or Indian people take western sounding names even though their names sound way more complicated." That's your experience. I have had Indian classmates that had English names. Chinese phonetics is completely different from other languages in that there are vowels and constants that do not exist in English phonetics. Moreover, tonals and pinyin throw even more confusion into the mix for English speakers. As far as I know, Japanese is not like this and is pretty straightforward, can't speak for the Indian languages. Try saying the name "诗婷" without accidentally pronouncing it as a certain English swear. "Michaels" would deny they love to copy the west, yet they fly out of China at the first opportunity. I don't understand how studying abroad to gain skills/knowledge and opportunity equates to "copying". "Yeah the mainland Chinese should definitely take Japanese sounding names and you know why." ???
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