Asian American Vignette #4

A small private college offers courses in fashion design and textile arts. It is the first day of a introductory design class.  About 35 percent of the students are Asian American and about 5 percent are students from Asia.  As the white teacher is struggling through some of the names of the students while calling roll, she sighs and says “Why can’t you have normal names which I could pronounce like Richard or Margaret?”

Question for the reader:  What is the basis for
this teacher's concept of a normal name?

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