Over the past few years, the main focus of Taiwan's politics has not been to fight for the economy, but to engage in various secondary issues, such as "political correctness." In order to affirm the contributions of people of different genders and ethnic groups, on September 16, the national version of the National Primary and Secondary Pugao Edition of the State Natural Sciences was adopted after revision, and one of the changes was to return Madame Guli to her real name: "Maria Skłodowska-Curie".
Press: Mrs. Juli's real name is "Maria Skłodowska", and "Curie" is her husband's name. Usually, in addition to calling her "Madame Curie", she is also called "Marie Curie".
Of course, I don't know whether the politically correct position of even the names of married women celebrities has anything to do with the personal will of Tsai Ing-wen, who is a woman.
For example, the news anchor Chung Pei-jun, who is also a candidate for the Kuomintang New Taipei City Council, and Ji Weizhu, a professor at the School of Public Health of National Taiwan University, wrote on Facebook: "This political correctness and gender equality have been overcorrected!" She said that in the past, women's marriage was very common, and today's habits could not be required to be modified by the ancients. Her research team collaborated on the French "Jury Institute" and commemorated "Marie Gully".
However, according to current international practice, "Maria Skvodowska-Juli" is instead written, and all formal occasions, not only for her, but for every famous woman in ancient times, have been referred to in this way, the most common example of which is the Wikipedia article. Ji Weizhu was thus bombarded by many people on Facebook, so that she later turned around, moved the dragon door, and wrote on Facebook: "Please see clearly the person who accused me, I have no objection to adding Mary's original name, but I do not approve of replacing the title of Madame Julie from now on." I was also a member of the Sex Level Committee, and I also started classes on the Gender Curriculum. I just emphasize respecting history and respecting national customs. Europe and the United States are accustomed to changing after marriage, not only crowning the husband's surname. Did Mary's mother use her original surname or her husband's surname? It's been pulled too far, stop here. ”
Interestingly, many years ago, the whole of China adopted the international convention of the appellation, and only places such as Hong Kong and Taiwan still use the old/unscientific and simpler colloquial names. I remember that until 1949, Chiang Kai-shek had always supported the simplification of Chinese characters, but then he fled to Taiwan and found that New China was carrying out the reform of Chinese character simplification, so he resolutely maintained the traditional characters.
In this regard, Wang Zongwei, a doctoral student at the National Development Research Institute of National Taiwan University, also wrote a book entitled "How Did the 'Lady' Come About?" The web article "Jokes That Don't Understand Western Historical Traditions" lists Mrs. Perón, Mrs. Mayer, Mrs. De dr. Anderson and Mrs. Gandhi (press: her husband is not "Mahatma" Gandhi) as examples to prove that in the past, only women were more famous than men, they were called "Mrs. OO". If her husband is also a well-known figure, such as Yuan Jialuo and Wu Jianxiong, Clinton and Hillary, then her wife will not be called "Mrs. OO".
However, his statement is also contradictory, because Mrs. Verón's husband Juan Perón is the president of Argentina, and it is only because of the popular sentiment of Perón during the general's reign that more than half of it was this ... Pulled. However, Wu Jianxiong's fame is also greater than That of Yuan Jialuo, proving that Yang Zhenning and Li Zhengdao's experiment of non-conservation of the universe was made by her, and many people believe that if it were not for the discrimination against women at that time, she would have won the award together with Yang and Li.
The reason why I wrote this article is to read one of the sentences of Wang Zongwei's blog: "Generations like this writer who grew up in the 1980s, childhood and adolescence entertainment are bathed in the baptism of Hong Kong films during the British rule period." In the Hong Kong police films at that time, the Hong Kong police would say "Yes Sir" in a standard way when they saluted the chief, which became a registered trademark of a specific movie. But the question is, if the chief in front of you is a woman and not a gentleman, how can the English of this salute be said? Say "Yes madame". ”
I believe everyone in Hong Kong knows that what we are saying is actually: "Yes, madam." Instead of "madame". The difference between the two English is not small.
As for Hong Kong's usual name, ordinary people usually do not take the surname of their husband. I remember when I was a child, I saw some famous women, such as Zhou Liang Shuyi, Xiao Sun Yubiao, whose "Zhou" also, whose "Xiao" also, usually had a bit of identity, and his wife would only crown her husband's surname. As for the husbands who are more powerful, such as Mrs. Li Xiaohe, Mrs. Sun Bingshu, etc., the name of the wife will be completely removed.