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<\/p>\nDear Anonymous,<\/p>\n
It sometimes happens that another individual (whether a supervisor, colleague, client, or even casual acquaintance) may call you by the name of another Asian person.\u00a0 I think it is important to remember that this type of confusion can be caused by the most innocent of reasons — and not just because \u201cAll Asians lookalike.\u201d Some years ago, I witnessed such an incident and asked the individual how they got confused.\u00a0 As it turns out, this person got two common Chinese surnames \u201cChan\u201d and \u201cChang\u201d mixed up, which led him to call his colleague \u201cBobby [Chang]\u201d instead of his correct name \u201cRichard [Chan].\u201d<\/p>\n
If this type of name confusion happens to you, I suggest that you keep this mind.\u00a0 As in any business situation where you are referred to by the wrong name, you should politely and respectfully correct the situation.\u00a0 As I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll find, the person who called you the wrong name will not only be embarrassed by their error, they may be doubly chagrined when they learn that they called you by another Asian name.\u00a0 Like in any situation, you should put the erring person at ease about their faux pas by taking the high road.\u00a0 In fact, injecting some humor into the situation (\u201cI do sort of look like him\/her!\u201d) can help defuse the situation and prevent an innocent error from becoming an embarrassing situation.<\/p>\n
– Curtis<\/p>\n
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Dear Anonymous,<\/p>\n
Hopefully, the situation is caused by a benign mistake.\u00a0 If your supervisor, knowingly and pointedly, call you by a different name in order to belittle you, then you have a whole different problem.\u00a0 You should try to correct him nicely (as Curtis pointed out above) and if he doesn\u2019t change, then you may need to take this up with your HR representative.\u00a0 If you go this far, you may need to have a plan to get out, either to another department or out all together.<\/p>\n
– Wee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Anonymous, It sometimes happens that another individual (whether a supervisor, colleague, client, or even casual acquaintance) may call you by the name of another Asian person.\u00a0 I think it is important to remember that this type of confusion can be caused by the most innocent of reasons — and not just because \u201cAll Asians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-culture","category-career"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n