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Heeey, what's up. It's only 10 a.m. over here and I feel so cranky already! I am mostly cheering myself up by thinking about how awesome Asada Mao is. She competed at the 2008 Worlds without a coach, you guys. And then she won! Is that not amazing! She is pretty awesome.

Additional pet peeve:

-- I dislike it when people refer to East Asian skaters by "given name, family name". That is not how it goes! I always twitch when I see mentions of "Yu-Na Kim", although weirdly enough I always catch myself calling Mao "Mao Asada" in my head. This is when I >:( at myself again.

But here are some things that makes me happy:

-- Mao is the South Koreans' favourite Japanese celebrity. Yu-Na is the Japanese' favourite Korean celebrity. :D!

-- They are BFFs. THERE CAN BE NO HATESEX WITH THEM. EVER. (Um, that came out a little cranky.)

-- Mao's pretty.

Comments

[pearldrop.livejournal.com]

I had the same name order problem during the 2008 Summer Olympics with Cseh László. Then again, I was mostly happy that the poor guy got any media attention at all, considering it was the summer of Michael Phelps. :\

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Oh, I didn't know that Hungary used Eastern name order! This is interesting to know, and also four-time medallist? That's impressive.

[pearldrop.livejournal.com]

I probably should cut them slack since it's not as well known that Hungarians use that name order, but I still got a little indignant over it. Anyway, He's pretty awesome! He set all sorts of European records that summer and any other year, he would have been a big story! &László;

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That is AMAZING! *shakes fist at Phelps*

Still, though. They could have done a little research! On further Wikipedia-browsing apparently Japanese name-order is a little fraught -- it's traditionally family name-given name, but it's become incredibly common practice (more so than for Chinese or Korean names) to use given-family in the media.

Ethnocentrism. :/