Time Capsule #41: What's the dumbest thing someone has argued you about?
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Hi, I’m Lucy Dan (she/her), and the dumbest thing someone has ever argued me about is likely whether or not I get to choose an anglicized name or whether they will call me by my Chinese name. Someone (outside my culture) arbitrarily imposed on me that for me to embody my culture more authentically, I should only use my Chinese name and insisted on me sharing my Chinese name. On a personal level, I choose not to share my Chinese name as for me it has its own traumatic use; like many families, your ‘full name’ or ‘full Chinese name’ is used when someone is trouble, and for an abusive parent, much the same. It just appalled me that someone could be so insistent on being ‘inclusive’ that they could impose on someone else the need to make a choice a certain way without involving that person’s agency at all. To this day it’s felt like one of the dumbest things I’ve ever argued about, albeit an important argument to have to set boundaries around my own choices.
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I think the most ridiculous argument I've ever been in was when two Canadian friends were making fun of a few of us citizens of the United States for our ignorance of geography. They were convinced the U.S. had 51 states, and we tried to tell them we only had 50, and they were just kept doubling down.