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Olympia Dukakis would be proud of China's name game
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Here's our weird China note of the day.
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With Beijing about to host the Summer Olympics, more than 4,000 children in the world's most populous nation have been named "Aoyun," which translates to Olympic Games.
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The BBC reports the trend started in 1992, when China made its first bid to host an Olympics, but was rejected for the 2000 Games. The BBC adds that it's not uncommon for Chinese children to have their names derived from nationalistic slogans, such as "Build the Nation" or "Space Travel."
The BBC reports the trend started in 1992, when China made its first bid to host an Olympics, but was rejected for the 2000 Games. The BBC adds that it's not uncommon for Chinese children to have their names derived from nationalistic slogans, such as "Build the Nation" or "Space Travel."
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Now then, imagine if a similar trend had occurred in America after some of the recent times it has hosted the Olympics.
Now then, imagine if a similar trend had occurred in America after some of the recent times it has hosted the Olympics.
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In 1980, after the Winter Games in Lake Placid, we would have had a run of kids named "Miracle on Ice."
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After the highly successful and over-commercialized Los Angeles Summer Olympics of 1984, children would have answered to "Brought to You by Kodak."
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And the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics would have spawned a generation known as "Stuck in Traffic."
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