As an Asian American Studies major I find this...boring? It's a really long and drawn out conversation but Betty Brown's comments are painfully offensive. My mother's maiden name is Miyao (宮尾) and she hypenates it to Miyao-Moore which causes all sorts of pronounciation problems. I'm just glad that she didn't insist that I also take the hyphenated last name, as Tyler Tadashi Miyao-Moore just doesn't have a ring to it. I'm hard pressed to think of a more hapa sounding name.
Interestingly enough, a google search of "Tadashi Moore" leads to google ads for Tadashi dresses and a Michigan based designer/photographer Ian Tadashi Moore. I am awaiting the discovery of a doppelganger Tyler Tadashi Moore, so that we can have an epic knife fight concluding in lightning and me shouting, "THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!"
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Even crazier, my mother's last name is Miyao, too. I don't know the characters, though. MIND BLOWN.
Many interesting coincidences here… kind of eerie that I never found this before.
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