Via Simon, from Milton J. Madison: you can now instantly recieve a Chinese name. I follow the instructions and punch in George Curzon, and the computer decides to call me Guang Rong Kong ! (Or Kong Guang Rong, if you put the family name first.)

That sounds far less noble, but as the (real) Lord George N. Curzon noted himself at the turn of the 20th century:

We must remember that the ways of Orientals are not our ways, nor their thoughts our thoughts. Often when we think them backward and stupid, they think us meddlesome and absurd. The loom of time moves slowly with them, and they care not for high pressure and the roaring of the wheels. Our system may be good for us; but it is neither equally, not altogether good for them. Satan found it better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven; and the normal Asiatic would sooner be misgoverned by Asiatics than well governed by Europeans.

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