Texas State Rep. to Asian-Americans: "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?"
No points for guessing her party affiliation.
Whig?
As someone with a Chinese last name, I've spent most the day trying to pick out which new one to adopt.
Also, my dad totally changed his name from Yi Hao or something to Van (?!) when he moved here for precisely the reason that Texan bitch is talking about.
And the permalink title cracked me up...
Wait!
I just remembered. My family name four generations back?
Tønneson!
So, yeah, ya yella varmints! Change it up to Yeehaw and Yippee and stuff we get.
(Granted, it was Ellis Island that renamed us, so maybe the government could just rename the Chings and Chongs.