Re: [Talk] English and our culture
※ 引述《demonderrick (Derrick)》之銘言：
: I can't agree with you on this..
: It is like... all countries has their own culture, custom, and language.
: If you do repsect their culture and so on, you should try to be in the way they do.
: For example, if a foreigner comes to Taiwan...
: They will have to call your family name first..then the first name...
: It is because they are in Taiwan and speaks Chinese...
: In the other hand, I am sure you don't want a foreigner
: to call your first name first in Chinese and following with the family name.
: If you don't want it, then it won't make it reasonable to you to say so..
: After all, language is just a tool...to communicate...
: why do we have to bring in those self-centric ideas into it?
: just let it be what it originally is..
: Therefore, due to the reason to repsect other cultures and our own culture...
: I just can't agree with your idea.
Truly, adopting English rules when using English is proper n polite but it's
not my point.
OK, I'll talk about the "name problem" first.
For sure, foreigns call any Chinese names with squence of last bofore
first, neither because they are against their culture nor showing sacred
respect toward Chinese culture.
Instead, names are just symbols. They call Chinese names in whatever way we do;
just like we call English names in the way they do.
So, we don't see the translated English names are shown in our way (Tom Cruise
克魯斯湯姆 for instance) but 湯姆克魯斯
By this, they call Chinese names in our way when using PinIn to translate seems
pretty reasonable.
BUT, this is not what I would like to express.
I truly hope we can learn English well for not only getting more info but
learning how to show our own culture well in thier way.
That's what I wanna say.
I find it really sad so many people argue Chinese culture is so weak n useless
that learning Chinese is wasting of time compared with English.
Languages are tools for expressing.
However, when the tool's held what are we gonna express, our culture or theirs?
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