"What's in the name ?" - So goes the saying ! But Chinese might not agree to that. One cannot dispute the their protest as they have been sharing just 100 surnames among more than one billion people.
Intersting to note that a child should share surname of only mother or father. That has lead to the current situation. Officially the chinese govt has realeased a note saying that the surnaming trend is to be changed to suite current "Identity crisis" ! Proposal is a chinese surname can be choosen from a list of "Acceptable surnames", not just their parents.
The statistics which lead to the conclusion is worth noting :
(in Millions)
93 Million "Wang"
(Equivalent to Population of (gernamy-82 M+ greece 11M)
92 Million "Li"
(Equivalent to Population of UK 60M + Venezula 27 M)
87 Million "Zhang "
( Equivalent to Popuulations of Australia 20M + France 60M)
CNN further goes on :
"The Chinese Academy of Sciences has reported that at least 100,000 people share the name of "Wang Tao", the newspaper said, causing problems in daily life."
Well thats almost 0.3 billion people sharing just 4 surnames. Imagine for others ! Mind boggling.
NExt time u visit beijing before u call aloud ur friend Wang re-think !! Because u might have a million heads stare at you !
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