When Aria Young was 16, she moved from her home city of Shanghai in China to...

 

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When Aria Young was 16, she moved from her home city of Shanghai in China to the US state of Pennsylvania. The high school student's new life involved a lot of changes, including a name change. "I was told that changing my Chinese name to an English one would make life easier," says Young via Zoom from New York, where the now 21-year-old is a second-year student at New York University. Fast-forward five years, and Young feels differently. She is questioning why she abandoned her native Chinese name, a decision that left her feeling confused about her cultural identity. "I wanted to find out why people threw away their Asian names and identity," she says. She discovered that it wasn't just because English names were easier to pronounce in people's adopted countries, but that they were seen as "fancier and better sounding because of cultural colonialism". Source B: Many Indonesians of Chinese descent have a complicated story behind their names as a result of the country's history in its nation-building process. When Soeharto took power in 1965 and formally became president in 1966, beginning the New Order period, Chinese-Indonesians were under heightened pressure to prove their Indonesian-ness. The regime introduced several policies that suppressed the Chinese part of Chinese- Indonesian people... [Some] believed that the Chinese-Indonesians would never truly become Indonesians if they did not shed the culture and habits that separated them from other Indonesians. One of the ways was the Cabinet Presidium Decision 127 of 1966, which instructed Chinese-Indonesians to change their names into Indonesian- sounding ones. Before the New Order, some Chinese-Indonesians... had changed their names, but this was by choice. Many tried to incorporate their Chinese names in the Indonesian version. Today, people can still guess someone's Chinese family names by their Indonesian version, some notable examples being business tycoon Sudono Salim, whose Chinese name is Liem Sioe Liong, Kompas founder Petrus Kanisius Ojong, whose Chinese name is Auwjong Peng Koen and businessman Sukanto Tanoto, whose Chinese name is Chen Jianghe (Chen can be read as Tan in some dialects). Another popular surname among Chinese Indonesians is Wijaya, usually used by people whose Chinese family name is Oei (pronounced like "we") in the Hokkien dialect. (a) What pattern of ethnic interaction is illustrated in both sources above? In your own words, define and explain the pattern of interaction in the context of each source. (b) To what extent is the name change in Source A and Source B a personal decision? What social factors may have prompted the name change in the scenarios above? Discuss ONE (1) social factor for Source A and ONE (1) social factor in Source B. Support your argument with evidence from the two sources given above. When Aria Young was 16, she moved from her home city of Shanghai in China to the US state of Pennsylvania. The high school student's new life involved a lot of changes, including a name change. "I was told that changing my Chinese name to an English one would make life easier," says Young via Zoom from New York, where the now 21-year-old is a second-year student at New York University. Fast-forward five years, and Young feels differently. She is questioning why she abandoned her native Chinese name, a decision that left her feeling confused about her cultural identity. "I wanted to find out why people threw away their Asian names and identity," she says. She discovered that it wasn't just because English names were easier to pronounce in people's adopted countries, but that they were seen as "fancier and better sounding because of cultural colonialism". Source B: Many Indonesians of Chinese descent have a complicated story behind their names as a result of the country's history in its nation-building process. When Soeharto took power in 1965 and formally became president in 1966, beginning the New Order period, Chinese-Indonesians were under heightened pressure to prove their Indonesian-ness. The regime introduced several policies that suppressed the Chinese part of Chinese- Indonesian people... [Some] believed that the Chinese-Indonesians would never truly become Indonesians if they did not shed the culture and habits that separated them from other Indonesians. One of the ways was the Cabinet Presidium Decision 127 of 1966, which instructed Chinese-Indonesians to change their names into Indonesian- sounding ones. Before the New Order, some Chinese-Indonesians... had changed their names, but this was by choice. Many tried to incorporate their Chinese names in the Indonesian version. Today, people can still guess someone's Chinese family names by their Indonesian version, some notable examples being business tycoon Sudono Salim, whose Chinese name is Liem Sioe Liong, Kompas founder Petrus Kanisius Ojong, whose Chinese name is Auwjong Peng Koen and businessman Sukanto Tanoto, whose Chinese name is Chen Jianghe (Chen can be read as Tan in some dialects). Another popular surname among Chinese Indonesians is Wijaya, usually used by people whose Chinese family name is Oei (pronounced like "we") in the Hokkien dialect. (a) What pattern of ethnic interaction is illustrated in both sources above? In your own words, define and explain the pattern of interaction in the context of each source. (b) To what extent is the name change in Source A and Source B a personal decision? What social factors may have prompted the name change in the scenarios above? Discuss ONE (1) social factor for Source A and ONE (1) social factor in Source B. Support your argument with evidence from the two sources given above.

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