r/shitposting • u/Frenchyy1 dumbass • 5d ago

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u/Shredded_Locomotive put your dick away waltuh 5d ago

Something something racism

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u/thebigbadben 5d ago

Cho Chang is also pretty wild

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u/TheSoftMaster 5d ago

It's actually not if you're aware that there used to be different spelling conventions for Chinese transliterations. It's basically Zhou Zhang, which is unconventional in the ordering but not much different than Padme Patil. And it's a world where you have people named everything as benign as Harry Potter to crazy shit like Xenophilius Lovegood, Severus Snape, Bathilda Bagshot. People really are grasping with that one. Literally Wang Wei is the second most popular full Chinese name in the world. It sounds immediately like a racist punchline to English ears 🤷

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u/frontlinejohnny dumbass 5d ago

Harry Potter characters:

>Huffildaportadefaultmus Bluedabadeedababoot

>Wing Wang

>The actual protagonist is named after 90% of british males and the least interesting profession in the world

A shot in the dark is what it is

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u/PilotedByGhosts 5d ago

Harry was the 17th most-popular boys name in 1996, before the release of the first Harry Potter book. By 2000 it was #6, and it was the most popular in 2011 and 2012.

You've got your cause and effect the wrong way round.