What is a name anyway??...

I always learn something new here. Today in my Mandarin lesson I learned how the Chinese put family name first and then given name. My tutor said in high school one day her teacher said she was only going to call students by their "English" names. None of the students at the time had English names so they all went home to pick one. At home, she turned to the back of the English dictionary that listed example English names. She found one she liked and would be easy to remember...Sally. Unlike China, she said most Hong Kong children are given English names at birth by their parents as well as traditional Chinese names.