Glad to see you do this, Charlie. People who know more about Hispanic surnames than me have complained about this problem for a while, so it's good to see someone making the effort to address this issue.
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Originally Posted by Charlie Hough
Also, I added a select few Asian surnames like Chen and Chang, which are the most common Asian surnames in the census data and are frequently combined with English first names these days. But these are not set to be very frequent at all for American players, so you will only occasionally see them. Otherwise, I have continued to allow OOTP to handle Asian-American players as it normally does, with their own fully Asian nameset.
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Well, this highlights a problem inherent in OOTP's way of handling names. Say, for instance, you have white/black/Asian/Hispanic ethnic breakdown of 78/13/2/7. If you add some Asian surnames to the American Modern "0" nameset, then someone named "Michael Chang" will have only a 2% chance of getting an Asian facegen. Instead, he'll much more likely end up being white or black or even Hispanic.
As I see it, the only way to get names, ethnicities, and percentages all coordinated is to make ethnically homogeneous namesets. If you want Asian-Americans to have Asian surnames paired with "typically American" first names and also with Asian facegens, it probably wouldn't be too difficult to create an Asian-American nameset.