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I think Toronto being 40% foreign born is conservative. Is Toronto still cionsidered Canada anymore? .
Anyway, Vancouver and Calgary also have very large Asian communities, and Ontario has a very large Portuguese community, so not surprising to see a name like that. I will probably add a few Neves' to my Canadian league, just to feel at home. |
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-Most Canadian Asians, at least of my generation (I'm 30) and younger, do not use their ethnic first names. They may use their ethnic last name, but rarely do they go by their ethnic first name. -Just because our population breaks down a certain way doesn't mean that's how our baseball population breaks down. Despite Gagne and maybe a couple others currently in the bigs, I don't think French Canadians come even close to 30% of our pro players. Thankfully, though, the files are editable. |
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Any word on how we edit the name files yet? The Icelandic file has no Icelandic names (all Icelandic surnames are a first-name with sson at the end), but rather a collection of mixed Scando-names, and the name files for Sweden and Norway have Finnish names in it, like Numinen or Litmaanen.
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Well, the Russian name file has some silly women's names in it -- I saw that coming and will edit them out.
Why was the number of "ethnicities" limited to 40? That's such a strange number, not even a power of two... |
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Since we're talking about Asian names in this thread I figured it would be better to bump this instead of starting a new thread.
At any rate, I just created a fictional Taiwanese league just to see what the names would look like and I noticed that the player names are backwards. Meaning in Taiwan, a persons family name comes first and then their given name. For instance, there is a player named Ping Chang-wei in my league. Ping is his family name and Chang-wei is his given name. However, the game presents him as Chang-wei Ping. For the sake of accuracy, it would be nice if we had an option on how player names are presented, especially in countries who are "backwards" from the US and other western countries.
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