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Episode 16: hUmaN cApiTaL FLigHt

The Deprogram

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I Am Rager. I Buy My Racea From Your Grandma's Village

When i want to college, i went to a school where there were a lot of very wealthy chinese exchange students. Every single one of them had to change their name to accommodate american pronunciation. A lot of em would pick very old people names, like mildred. And there was one dude, i think he was going for roger, but he he spelled it r a g e r. So he had this thi exchange student called rager just walking around camps. Itwas absolutely, i mean, it it it's different when, when they're changing their name in order to accommodate local culture,. In certain cultures, you could even call it polite or whatever. In others

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