True Names:
Them Chinese-ers needs to pick them some real American names, like Mississinewa or Oconomowoc. Or Cholmondeley St. John. (Pronounced Chumley Sinjin, BTW)
“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 said.
Brown later told Ko: “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?”
Which is why I’m not called Rittenhausen, or something more complex, I guess.