Lunar New Year 2023
<p>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</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>How do folks feel about the sense of having to kinda change… [unfinished]<br />
Is this something… [this sentence was also unfinished]<br />
As educators & counselors, how do we approach when a student asks us “Should I simplify my name? Should I change it?”</p>
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