This time a guy wrote me attach the profile of a particularly attractive hottie who happens to be Vietnamese. And wow, she seems to be full of life, energy, compassion and feminine charm, an almost perfect combination to make a woman's personality, I think.
His name is Thuy.
After working with Vietnamese children back in the early years of my coaching career to teenagers, I suggested my friend beat this woman sox off (presumably red because Bostonians are) saying that the next e-mail that is time talking on the phone, especially since you are betting that you can pronounce his name correctly.
If you say Twee, as Elmer Fudd refers to a tree, pass the same test. Even better is the Tu-WEE. Anyway, my friend Thuy successfully serving what he likes to hear if she is like any other red-blooded man, the sound of his name.
To know how annoying it is to have your name misspelled, I can only imagine what it feels like to have your name so cruelly sacrificed to listen to Thuy must have been in recent years.
My friend can not lose by speaking their name correctly. He is in.
But based on his e-mail that appears to already be completely captivated by him anyway. And the best time to improve your game is when you're on top of it, right?
So best wishes to the two as "Iron Chef Battle" happens in your kitchen, a concept borrowed successful example of a profile published a year or so ago.
But at the same time, I could not help remembering a story, one that will be twenty years later this year.
Back at the beginning of my career working with high school students met a Vietnamese child, illustriously named "Phuc That".
As Dave Barry would say, "I promise I'm not making this up."
He and his parents were fresh off the boat (or "FOB" in their own cultural dialect). In fact, I gave another guy with me to meet her parents, and try to explain, with the child as an interpreter, the potential uproar due to its name in this country.
I will never forget that meeting.
Being very young and ready to save the world at the time (and the only thing that has changed since then, of course, is that it's been twenty years) I remember feeling like I was doing a public service of monumental importance, even when about having respect for cultural pride and possible deeper meaning of the names of children who are taken by their parents.
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