KM-Host: “Jarryd raised something really interesting. This issue of — and I’ll say this because my married name is [redacted], it used to be much simpler — there is this idea within our AAPI community when it’s time to be professional or when you’re a student seeking jobs there tends to be this practice of quieting a part of yourself. People will choose more Americanized names because they feel it’s easier for other people to say
or
they don’t want to bother having to correct other people, or they don’t want their more Asian sounding name to be butchered sometimes.
How do folks feel about the sense of having to kinda change… [unfinished]
Is this something… [this sentence was also unfinished]
As educators & counselors, how do we approach when a student asks us “Should I simplify my name? Should I change it?”