On Du, 28 oct 12, 08:37:04, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > As a side note in this discussion, I'd like to mention the convention > I personnally use: putting my family name in capitals. I think this is > an interesting convention to use, particularly by our Asian friends > as, in most Asian cultures, the family name is used first....but > confusion is added by the fact that several have indeed adopted the > "European" use. +1 on the suggestion, I started using it myself whenever there is a chance of confusion. > This combined with the deep ignorance we (the so-called "european" > folks, which usually includes Latin and Anglo-Saxon cultures) have > from Asian names and surnames, leads to many "cultural mixups" ending > in calling someone with her first name only, which is often considered > rude. And all this is made even more complicated because things vary a > lot between China, South-East Asia, Japan, Korea, India, Thailand, etc. No need to go so far. Hungarians also put family name in front[1] and in Romania we have many names that sometimes also show up as family names[2]. At my place of work[3] I'm seeing a lot of mistakes in this regard, especially when cultures interact. [1] Romanians used to do it as well, but it seems we have been influenced by the Anglo-Saxon cultures [2] for example Andrei Gheorghe, which translates to Andrew George. [3] I'm dealing with lots of people from various nationalities, citizenships and countries. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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