To the Editor of the "Nonta. Ciwa Dain News"
GhineSe changing their names. into.—Mr, Shaw's enquiry about
foreign ones deserves our full atten. tion.
Wt is indeed xidieulous and ap: palling to note the Chinese people's Bensclessness. in this way, and Seems most of those so-called. modern Chinese, think themselves "cultured" and "well-educated" when Polishing their innocent Chinese ames up with Rosie, Wellington, or, whatever it be.
The writer himself is from country where our compatriots over there suffer a great deal of prejudice from the foreign. people, no atter whether we use such names like Cleopatra or Benedict, or even Napoleon, All the same we appear to them no more than 'a simple "Ching Chang Chinaman" and as long as our country is militarily, such Polishing up of our names cannot gur wrong sense in adopting things foreign.
Most of our overseas brethren. no! doubt realise very well how our fate ig abroad as well as right here in China as Chinese, but unfortunately there are. still a great deal of these foreign born or educated Chinese people who think it more grand to use foreign names when returning to their miserable China, Instead of opening their eyes wide and see the condition of our country, and people before poshing themselves
themselves more and more alienated "with "usclens stains, they' make to their fatherland and brethren in this way, It is not by introducing such big' names from abroad that we can levate the condition of our country 1d people, and thus command the spect of the far better advanced tions to us, but it is a change of our senses and characteristic that necessary. for our rights in this world, Ridiculous. it is, no doubt, to cull ourselves Washington and the like while there are millions of our people on streets all over the world with marks of lack of educa than, food, clothing, ete., "roaming about before the eyes and to the Gisgust of the foreign people.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.