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Your Name is Wang Tao Too? Wow! What Are the Odds?
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
11:03:00 AM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Proof that some problems out there in the world don't translate into American experience:
With more than a billion people now sharing just 100 surnames, Chinese authorities are considering a landmark move to try to end the confusion, state media reported Tuesday.
Current Chinese law states that children are only allowed take the surname from either their mother or father, but the lack of variety means there are now 93 million people in China with the family name Wang.
In a country of around 1.3 billion people, about 85 percent share only 100 surnames, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the Ministry of Public Security in April and published in the China Daily newspaper on Tuesday.
The most common last name in the US? Smith, which is the last name of about 2.5 million people. Which is slightly less than one percent of the population. Which, proportionally speaking, is rather less than the number of people who have Wang as their name in China.
Anecdotally, this site tells me that only 1,250 people have the last name of Scalzi in this country. I like being (relatively) special. Of course, my first name is John.
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11:03:00 AM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Your Name is Wang Tao Too? Wow! What Are the Odds?
Proof that some problems out there in the world don't translate into American experience:
With more than a billion people now sharing just 100 surnames, Chinese authorities are considering a landmark move to try to end the confusion, state media reported Tuesday.
Current Chinese law states that children are only allowed take the surname from either their mother or father, but the lack of variety means there are now 93 million people in China with the family name Wang.
In a country of around 1.3 billion people, about 85 percent share only 100 surnames, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the Ministry of Public Security in April and published in the China Daily newspaper on Tuesday.
The most common last name in the US? Smith, which is the last name of about 2.5 million people. Which is slightly less than one percent of the population. Which, proportionally speaking, is rather less than the number of people who have Wang as their name in China.
Anecdotally, this site tells me that only 1,250 people have the last name of Scalzi in this country. I like being (relatively) special. Of course, my first name is John.
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