I hate how libs ALWAYS try to compare real politics to popular media.
Maybe it says something about their ability to comprehend complex situations without needing to compare it to something made to be easily understandable. Or maybe it’s a testament to their belief that there are somehow objective good and evil sides in the world, or think real politics should play out like a movie.
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I’ve heard “well I’m speaking English aren’t I? And English puts the last name behind the first!”
Also, as much as I generally like Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, this always irked me as an Asian: there’s an alien character called Kira Nerys, whose name format is the same as the East Asian one, so her last name is Kira and first name is Nerys. Which, I’ve always wondered: She’s an alien, so they did they pick that as a quirk to show just how “out of this world” her culture is? Bruh there are well over a billion people on Earth whose names are formatted like that!
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Also, it’s really silly when English speakers try to talk down about people like Xi JinPing by calling him “Xi”. They think it’s informal like calling Biden “Joe” or something. Lol that’s his last name, the one you’d use when referring to him formally (in English that is, you generally use the entire full name in Chinese, unless you’re stating their position or honorific (Chairman, Doctor, Mister/Miss/Mrs, etc). So you wouldn’t call him just Xi in Chinese the way you often say just “Biden”, you’d say Xi JinPing when using just the name, or you can call him Chairman Xi, though Chairman Xi JinPing is also grammatically correct. You would only just use someone’s first name if you’re very close to them like a significant other or close friend, or a younger family member, not older though because that’s considered disrespectful.)
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No worries lol! I don’t actually see it as being “wrong” if you don’t actually mean to talk down about him, because last name only is the formal convention in English. Though it could be imprecise, because there are a lot of last names in China that are extremely common, which I suspect is originally why Chinese people use full names so much.
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Yes!
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Lol even in Europe Hungarians have this convention, and Slavs also did in the past, which is often still used in formal situations. It’s kinda funny here in Poland, because when someone corrects that usage, you can be 100% sure it’s either mindless grammar nazi or a real active anticommunist.
It just makes more logical sense, too. The less specific term (your family name) goes before the more specific term (your name). It’s the same reason I like the YYYY-MM-DD date format instead of what they use in Europe or North America.