Texas lawmaker suggests Asians adopt easier names | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chron

April 10 2009, 1:20am

Texas lawmaker suggests Asians adopt easier names | Houston & Texas News | Chron.com - Houston ChronSource: http://www.chron.comAUSTIN — A North Texas legislator during House testimony on voter identification legislation said Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are “easier for Americans to deal with.”    From the article:Brown suggested that Asian-Americans should find a way to make their names more accessible.“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.Brown later told Ko: “Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”