who is this person and where can i hero-worship her
Pardon me for interrupting, but why would you “hero-worship her”??
I am Chinese, I grew up in Guangdong and now live in Beijing. My surname is Yang (杨/楊 in simplified/traditional Chinese characters). And allow me, a born-and-raised-and-live-in-China Chinese, not so humbly inform you: Both Cho and Chang ARE Chinese words pronounced in the Cantonese dialect (the major dialect spoken in Guangdong and Hong Kong), and they are written as 秋 (or any homophones) and 张/張 in Chinese characters. Ask any Cantonese-speaking Chinese, and they’ll tell you this. And SURPRISE: both Cho and Chang can be used as first name AND last name in Chinese.
To sum it up: The girl speaking in this gifset clearly has NO knowledge at all of Chinese language, and is acting very presumptuous about it. And to me, that is a case of racism.
EDIT: Quoting from wikipedia, “Chang is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 常 (Cháng). It was listed 80th among the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames” and “is also the Wade-Giles romanization of two Chinese surnames written Zhang in pinyin: one extremely common and written 張 in traditional characters and 张 in simplified characters and another quite rare and written as 章 in both systems.”
An even better writeup. And not from the HP wiki. From an actual person living in China.
Love it.
there you have it folks, it’s great to be emotional and invested in fandom, but do your research.
also i’m sorry but her referring to herself as cho still weirds me out.
This isn’t a pile-on because I don’t think this person is on tumblr but DAMN look at the passion in her face. It’s utterly amazing how WRONG she is and how passionately wrong she is. And I find that fascinating. It’s why you have to question EVERYTHING before you form an opinion and even then leave room open for the idea that you’ve cocked it all up. My God I’m a part of a religion and even I leave room for the fact that I am wrong. I hope I’m NOT but I know there is the possibility that I am wrong. I really feel so bad for her but at the same time I hope that someone did point it out to her and she got over it fairly quickly.