"pg" wrote in message
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Is "Raymond" a Chinese name?
If a "Raymond" tells you that he is a Chinese, would you believe that?
There are Chinese and then there are bananas. Real Chinese don't use
banana name, such as "Raymond".
On the other hand, banana can't help but have to use their banana
names, for fear of being told to "go back to your boat".
Banana is banana. Yellow skin outside, white shit inside.

Many Chinese living in the West have non-Chinese-sounding first names.
This is primarily to facilitate the pronunciation by Westerners who have
trouble in reading and pronouncing Chinese names. Personally I had to change
my Chinese name to my present one, because I was born in Indonesia, and
during the purge of the Chinese there in the early 60's, the Indonesian
government made it illegal for any Chinese to keep his/her Chinese name, in
an effort to wipe out the Chinese identity amongst the Overseas Chinese
living there; fortunately I emigrated to England. Again, your statement
makes it very difficult for anyone to believe that you have been in China.
Many Chinese in China now adopt English-sounding first names, a few of whom
have taken random choices with some very amusing results.
J.