How important are names? Well, that depends.
The old question of Taiwan’s name resurfaced again when Chen Zhen (陳蓁), a Chinese adjunct (part time) professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan, recently bullied a Taiwanese student into changing the name of his country of origin on his thesis.
Chen pressured him to change it from “Taipei, Taiwan,” to “Taipei, China.”
So, how important are names, especially the accuracy of one’s country of origin on an academic thesis?
Anyone who has visited a baseball game has probably heard vendors advertise their products: “You cannot tell the players without a scorecard.”
In baseball games,