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Her name is "Nerissa Zhang" - unless they are looking through for profile pictures of her or something, wouldn't they assume she is Asian as well? At least for
by oh_sigh 6y ago
Her name is "Nerissa Zhang" - unless they are looking through for profile pictures of her or something, wouldn't they assume she is Asian as well? At least for me, "Nerissa" is a name of unknown origin, maybe Greek. Zhang is clearly Chinese. I would assume the person was Chinese or at least 50% Chinese if I was forced to guess about their race/ethnicity.
- gnicholas 6y agoI assumed that since she claimed the email experience was evidence of bias, that her last name didn’t appear as Asian as her husband’s. You’re absolutely correct that if her email shows up as Zhang, that makes her email bias claim much weaker.
- jbay808 6y agoDo people usually change their email accounts when they marry and take their partner's name?
- 9HZZRfNlpR 6y agoYou can route old account emails to new and answer people from new account. It's quite seamless, to new people you give the new email. At least I knew few people who have done it after name change, but marriage and taking new name is less common nowadays than it used to be I guess.