Comments on: Obama left China with a new name

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By: genesee

genesee — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:34:55 +0000

I wonder if the americans just let the chinese decide these things. sounds ridiculous to me cause the chinese or any other self respecting nation would not let foreigner tell them what kind of house their leader lives in.

But america is a funny place, sometimes they forget they are a sovereign state and just think of themselves as a piece of land up for grabs. N one speaks out agains this for fear of being labelled racist, but tey are literally being overrun by aliens. One day they will wake up and find that they lost it to the Chinese.

By: tony ma

tony ma — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:09:25 +0000

Americans are soo naive. Only Chinese people can decide what to call Obama in their language. Anglos should not interfere. China has a special group in the New China News Agency and they decided that he is AOBAMA. That sounds natural to the Chinese people. Americans cannot change the will of 1.3 billion people and they should be careful because they are mostly monolingual and have a very short history of only a couple of hundred years and do not understand the fine nuances of Chinese culture based on 5.000 years of glorious civilization.

The US Embassy in China is a shameful disgrace and whoever is playing games trying to tell the Chinese people how to speak their language should be removed. THey need to hire a Chinese person, or at least an ABC who understands the culture and will check with the local authorities before translating the names of any future PResident.

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By: Tomas Ma

Tomas Ma — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:49:56 +0000

Sounds like there is more to this, check out this twit apparently from a usg spokesperson

http://twitter.com/#!/sergivicente/status/27763534523801600

RT @RichardBuangan Can’t believe our translator used the term 白屋when referring to the White House → “BaiWu” = White Room

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By: Tomas Park

Tomas Park — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:55:06 +0000

Obama did not leave China with a new name, the Communist media tried to change his name, as they do with other names, such as Seoul, the capital of Korea.
But self-respecting governments know this so from time to time issue polite reminders about sovereignty, mutual respect, and other principles that China claims to support. The USG surely is not working to “standardize” the Chinese vocabulary. It is probably doing what other governments do – translating the names of its leaders as it sees fit. Would you say that the PRC is trying to “standardize” English vocabulary when it translates their president’s name as Hu Jintao? Of course not. And neither was the ROK government when it politely reminded the Chinese that the name of its capital was not “hancheng”. And to use your words, American audiences were “not amused”. They respect the decisions of China and other countries. Hopefully one day, the Chinese will mature to that level.

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Nelda Wong — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:40:59 +0000

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By: Hsiao Khim

Hsiao Khim — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:46:49 +0000

I saw a video with Obama and Hue in front of the White House last month and it was clearly called the 白屋（bak ok) in Mandarin. In Malaysia for example, we decide on what to call our names in foreign languages, including English and Chinese so why should the Americans let a foreign power decide for them. Looks like this is just another case of Han chauvinism or Chinese – government induced nationalism. I remember that there was a big fuss about Korean names a few years ago, when some Chinese officials got the idea into their heads that they were in a better position to decide on what to call Seoul in Chinese. Any self-respecting government should understand this – kowtowing to the Chinese, or for that matter any outside power is not advisable.

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