2021/05/12 16:04 Call me by my real name group members outside Ministry of the Interior. (Facebook, Call me by my real name photo ) Call me by my real name group members outside Ministry of the Interior. (Facebook, Call me by my real name photo ) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) Savungaz Valincinan, a member of the Indigenous group Call me by my real name, on Wednesday (May 12) pointed out the double standard in allowing people to legally change their names for a sushi restaurant marketing campaign but forbidding native people from using their given names. The group held a press conference outside the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) on Wednesday and pointed out that some group members had gone to various household registration offices to apply to use only their traditional names as their legal ones, but their cases were rejected. As a result, Valincinan said she filed a petition in the (MOI), according to a group Facebook post.
Indigenous people demand official use of native names
05/12/2021 09:18 PM
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One of the advocates voices their call outside the Ministry of the Interior in Taipei Wednesday. CNA photo May 12, 2021
Taipei, May 12 (CNA) Indigenous people in Taiwan are campaigning for a change that will allow them to use only the romanized spelling of their native names on their identity documents.
On Wednesday, a group of indigenous advocates for the change made their appeal to the Ministry of the Interior (MOI), to which they complained that the current rule demanding the listing of both the romanization of a name and its Chinese transliteration is an act of discrimination.