wow

rather hard to believe someone in this day and age would say this, but it appears they did

you know when some of our ancestors came through ellis island

their names were butchered.

betty, we can't ALL have names like brown. MY name sure is nowhere NEAR there AND i don't want it to be either. i'm proud of my hard to spell name. it's not really hard to pronounce but people are intimidated by it 'cause it's so long and chuck full o' vowels
Asians should simplify their names, GOP lawmaker says
John Byrne

In a puzzling move which she insisted isn't about race, a Republican state lawmaker in Texas said in House testimony Wednesday that Asian Americans should change their names to ones that are “easier for Americans to deal with.”

Democrats jumped on the comments by state Rep. Betty Brown. Her remarks came during a Texas House Elections Committee hearing, who'd invited a Chinese American representative to testify about ballot accessibility.

“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 remarked.

“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?” ...................