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Feel free to share with me your reflections on the passages.

Others' works that I read very often:
☆★~多多ソ私日記~★☆ - 小萱
fossite satellite - Geoffrey
腹中溫酒 - Freeman
Jason's Fantasy - Jason
Matak's Thoughts - Frank / Matak
siuoL - Louis
Reverie... - Dennis
揭諦揭諦's Blurty - Zitai / 泰
龍的天空 - Jerry / 大班
alexfc - Alex
CCl4's Home - Sunny Pau
All we are saying is... - Franklin
Maggie's Xanga - Maggie Wu
Moomintroll's Daily - 坤坤 / 肥ken
lbabyblue's Xanga - Katrina
delicate_doll - Katrina
VvIiCc - VicVic
我手寫我心 - 小蜘蛛 Gigi
1000*2之交換日記 - Dominique



名字的含義

Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 17:09


張翠容在昨日的經濟日報寫了篇文章,關於世界各地不同的人的名字。她提及到她的韓國和巴勒斯坦朋友對她用英文名字都很詫異,不明白好端端一個中國人要用個西方名字。的確,好像只有香港人才會差不多人人都用英文名字,甚至不習慣給別人用中文名字來稱呼。

名字本身就是個文化符號,擱在家書架上,有本書用了整本的編幅來介紹各地的名字和姓氏的特性和來源。不知大家有沒有這樣的經驗,單看一個人的名字就大概能夠知曉她或他來自哪兒。大災難過後,搜索人員也是靠這些有地方特色的名字去分辨傷者和受難者所屬的國家。

大多數人都只會用英文去拼寫出自己的名字的讀音,但不會如香港人般乾脆起個英文名字。但想深一層,香港人都是原原本本的中國人?我猜不是吧!小時候就開始學習兩種語言,看的是荷里活電影,喝的是可樂和咖啡…我倒覺得香港人本身就是處於兩種文化之間。既然英文是我們的公用語言之一,是我們生活的一部分,用英文名字有何不妥呢?

或者名字的含義,正正反映了人們對文化的認同。

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