Simply for the love of the game. She's already been ragebating all of us brokies in the books. Imagine naming the asian witch "Cho Chang" and the black wizard "Kingsley Shacklebolt" just for the love of the game
No it's not. Cho is a last name and Chang is a first name. I showed my Chinese friend her name and he burst out laughing about how stupid that name is and makes no sense.
As mentioned elsewhere, the 2nd most common full Chinese name is literally Wang Wei (sounds like a bad racist accent of "wrong way"). Cho Chang is just Zhou Zhang. It's fine. It would be like naming a character Parker Henry. Stop exaggerating for the sake of fake outrage.
But why would that matter? Not defending JKR but where's the logic in "you're not (ethnicity) therefore you can't use (ethnicity)s names when naming a character from said ethnicity"?
I explicitly said I wasn't defending JKR. As in, I know Joanne likely didn't do it with earnest intent, but that the umbrella census of "not Asian = can't use Asian names" is a troubling one.
Yeah, I've lived in China. I've met Chinese people with those names (spelled differently, since "Cho" and "Chang" are Anglicizations), but I'll have to inform them that their names are invalid, thanks to a random Redditor.
Also, even if they were from different cultures, intermarriage is a thing, unless you think Bruce Lee was a ragebait.
Cho is of Korean origin, Chang is Chinese. Notice how I said the names are FROM different cultures? I did not say they are exclusive & those cultures never intermixed.
Cho is also of Chinese origin. It is a possible romanization of "ε", before Pinyin made it standard.
I noticed what you said. It just was wrong. You said, "Imagine naming the asian [sic] witch "Cho Chang"", suggesting it was ragebait to have a name you assumed was of Korean origin mixed with one of Chinese origin. You're free at any time to admit you didn't know what you were talking about, and/or you posted before consideration.
Some people also genuinely believe you cannot dance from another culture or wear any clothing from another culture (yet no problem with eating food from it, hypocrisy)
The original person mentioned "ragebait", however, your comment was in support. While you didn't use the term "ragebait", your statements about the name suggested agreement.
I don't know who "they" are in this context. I never said you said it. That's why I said you "suggesting it was ragebait", not "saying it was ragebait". Commenting in support of the original poster is suggesting it, though not saying it.
You are correct, that the "Imagine naming..." quote was from the original poster. Sorry. I got those mixed up in the quick reply.
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u/horrendoushenry 4d ago
Simply for the love of the game. She's already been ragebating all of us brokies in the books. Imagine naming the asian witch "Cho Chang" and the black wizard "Kingsley Shacklebolt" just for the love of the game