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The 5 points according to the video: 1) Married Priscilla Chan 2) Learned Mandarin 3) Joined Tsinghua University 4) Befriended Xijinping 5) Offered to let

The 5 points according to the video: 1) Married Priscilla Chan 2) Learned Mandarin 3) Joined Tsinghua University 4) Befriended Xijinping 5) Offered to let Xijinping name firstborn Personally I have trouble believing 1 and 5 were to get Facebook products into China unabridged. 5 sounds like a joke at a dinner party.

jimmies 9y ago
#5 is really low. I cannot believe someone who did that is a great person. This guy's baby is just another tool huh?
- seanmcdirmid 9y ago
  I'm sure Zuck just meant to pick the Chinese name, not the official English name. My half-Chinese son still doesn't have one, my wife having rejected my proposal of 小囧. Even then, I think this is just Zuck being Zuck, he is a bit socially awkward and was probably unfiltered genuine here for no business reason.
- balls187 9y ago
  The story goes Zuckerberg asked President Xi to give his unborn baby an Honorary Chinese name. Which still seems gross, but perhaps less so, given the baby would likely have a more common American name.
  - jimmies 9y ago
    Even it's the "backup" name, it's not like his wife or his wife's parents are incapable of coming up with a meaningful Chinese name for the child. It's his choice to go ask the president of China to choose it for him (and his wife - if she is like "I am not interested in choosing a Chinese name my child"?). I can understand this on a personal level. Yeah, I'd understand, If, say, Obama was my friend, I'd want to "ask" the ideas of his for my child's English name, when he comes to my family dinner, sure... But asking the Chairman of China publicly in a dinner just shows he does care a lot about who has power. Not a friend, not a great thinker, but a fucking president he has a chance to have dinner with the first time. And publicly with many other people. If I'm being cynical, then at least doing it his way was really quite distasteful.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
  Apparently he asked him for a Chinese name for the child, so it's more of an honorary thing than anything. The child would have a non-Chinese 'regular' name (Max in this case), and the traditional Chinese name could be sourced from him. People phrasing it in a scandalous-sounding 'omg he asked him to name his firstborn' way are reading into it too much.
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HillaryBriss 9y ago
if 5 were true (though i doubt it) it would make for a pretty sad conversation between Mr. Zuckerberg and their firstborn some day. i mean, c'mon. have some class. it's a move worthy of our current president.
- Jerry2 9y ago
  >if 5 were true Sadly, it's true: >At a White House dinner in 2015, Mr. Zuckerberg had even asked the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, whether Mr. Xi might offer a Chinese name for his soon-to-be-born first child — usually a privilege reserved for older relatives, or sometimes a fortune teller. Mr. Xi declined, according to a person briefed on the matter. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/technology/facebook-government-regulations.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/technology/facebook-gover...
  - HillaryBriss 9y ago
    ok. that's interesting. i guess it's fair to question Mr. Zuckerberg's motives. i say that because i think very very few people in the US would, given the chance, ask the leader of a foreign ancestral nation to name their firstborn child. a grandparent or a close personal friend, yes, plausibly -- but a political leader you don't even know? but, maybe there's some sort of qualifying condition here. maybe what they meant was the child's "Chinese name" which would be distinct from the child's name for day to day and legal use?
bitmapbrother 9y ago
I think we have our script outline for The Social Network 2.0

jimmies 9y ago

#5 is really low. I cannot believe someone who did that is a great person. This guy's baby is just another tool huh?

seanmcdirmid 9y ago
I'm sure Zuck just meant to pick the Chinese name, not the official English name. My half-Chinese son still doesn't have one, my wife having rejected my proposal of 小囧. Even then, I think this is just Zuck being Zuck, he is a bit socially awkward and was probably unfiltered genuine here for no business reason.
balls187 9y ago
The story goes Zuckerberg asked President Xi to give his unborn baby an Honorary Chinese name. Which still seems gross, but perhaps less so, given the baby would likely have a more common American name.
- jimmies 9y ago
  Even it's the "backup" name, it's not like his wife or his wife's parents are incapable of coming up with a meaningful Chinese name for the child. It's his choice to go ask the president of China to choose it for him (and his wife - if she is like "I am not interested in choosing a Chinese name my child"?). I can understand this on a personal level. Yeah, I'd understand, If, say, Obama was my friend, I'd want to "ask" the ideas of his for my child's English name, when he comes to my family dinner, sure... But asking the Chairman of China publicly in a dinner just shows he does care a lot about who has power. Not a friend, not a great thinker, but a fucking president he has a chance to have dinner with the first time. And publicly with many other people. If I'm being cynical, then at least doing it his way was really quite distasteful.
kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
Apparently he asked him for a Chinese name for the child, so it's more of an honorary thing than anything. The child would have a non-Chinese 'regular' name (Max in this case), and the traditional Chinese name could be sourced from him. People phrasing it in a scandalous-sounding 'omg he asked him to name his firstborn' way are reading into it too much.
- deleted 9y ago
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HillaryBriss 9y ago

if 5 were true (though i doubt it) it would make for a pretty sad conversation between Mr. Zuckerberg and their firstborn some day. i mean, c'mon. have some class. it's a move worthy of our current president.

Jerry2 9y ago
>if 5 were true Sadly, it's true: >At a White House dinner in 2015, Mr. Zuckerberg had even asked the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, whether Mr. Xi might offer a Chinese name for his soon-to-be-born first child — usually a privilege reserved for older relatives, or sometimes a fortune teller. Mr. Xi declined, according to a person briefed on the matter. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/technology/facebook-government-regulations.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/17/technology/facebook-gover...
- HillaryBriss 9y ago
  ok. that's interesting. i guess it's fair to question Mr. Zuckerberg's motives. i say that because i think very very few people in the US would, given the chance, ask the leader of a foreign ancestral nation to name their firstborn child. a grandparent or a close personal friend, yes, plausibly -- but a political leader you don't even know? but, maybe there's some sort of qualifying condition here. maybe what they meant was the child's "Chinese name" which would be distinct from the child's name for day to day and legal use?

bitmapbrother 9y ago

I think we have our script outline for The Social Network 2.0