Today I was talking to a friend who has spent quite a bit of time teaching English in various Asian countries. Smart guy, he typically teaches advanced students who are studying to get top grades on a certain test to get into Western universities.
In this story, he was teaching a class for smart four year olds in China, whose parents enrolled them. These kids all had Western-style nicknames their parents had given them for English class, names like Panda, Tiger, Cinderella, Butterfly, and so on, but also more traditional names, Jennifer, Mike, James, Linda. One little girl had the unfortunate nickname Dickcheney (all one word). Of course my friend was the only one who thought anything of it. Lol.
