Well people I had a question. I know how in japan atleast names are inverted compared to english so that a person's last name comes first. Does that hold true in any other asian countries?

I basically just found out about my new roommate for next year so I'm trying to figure out where he's from.... but yea help?

I believe it's also for Asian-type countries. I know China has the "family before self" mentality and it applies to their names too.

This search http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&q =cultures+last+name+first&btnG=Google+Search
the first hit is Wikipedia and the quote is "In Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese cultures, the family name is placed before the given names. So the terms "first name" and "last name" are ..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_name

________________
My avatar was Yves Saint Laurent's The Black Evening Dress (with big bow) first shown in 1983, photographed from his 2002 retrospective and final show. [color=#CC0066]Check out some of his collections for free (pre-2008) HERE[/color] courtesy of FirstView.

yeah that's true....but there's a better way, just ask him.

________________
Life, what would it be without so much wrongs and rights?


Star Trek XI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZiR-NETDr0

I'm chinese and my surname comes first.

Yes, that's true for my family. We're Taiwanese/Chinese.

And when speaking English, always call a person by their first name first, no matter where he/she is from.

Same for Vietnamese: Surname, Given Name.

I found out, he is chinese, apparently on his first trip to college in america. Which is weird b/c I'm no tin the international dorm..... but anyway I'm super excited

Make sure he knows that you are senior to him and he has to clean after you and cook for you and also do your laundry. This is an important custom in America that he shows respect to the seniors!

Then see how long it lasts.

________________
Life is tough......but it's tougher if you're stupid.

where i come from the fathers first name becomes the last name of the wife and children.

________________
http://narutofever.com/naruto-characters/pictures/anko-sig.gif


we are all of the creed
the creed we worship rules us all
the creed of okutoness forever
that and when the next flight to japan

i think thats the norm of today's society. so far the only culture i've know who have taken the wife's name are the japanese when taking in in-laws...

Same here like in most places, you can actually have the mothers name for the children or even for the father or even pick up a new name incase it does not exist yet.

In my family the names are decided from the year your born (Chinese zodiac) or some sort of self meaning.

Example
youngest siblings translates to "Heavenly mountain"

________________
Have you even been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...

~Rose Walker

i dont think any of you get it. ill give an example. lets say thiers a guy named jack(firstname) daniel(lastname) if he were to marry a girl who's name is tracy halkins the girl's name would become tracy jack, and if they have children, the children would have jack as thier last name

________________
http://narutofever.com/naruto-characters/pictures/anko-sig.gif


we are all of the creed
the creed we worship rules us all
the creed of okutoness forever
that and when the next flight to japan

Well, technically, in America, you can do anything, even make up a new last name for your children. Girls don't have to give up their last name when they get married now.

So you are from Iceland right?