"Foreign" students at Hogwarts (Cho)

[drmm_fuuko]

No: HPFGUIDX 58536

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Serena Moonsilver" 
<serenamoonsilver at y...> wrote:
> Actually, if she were Japanses it would still be Chang Cho 
(Japanese 
> also put surnames first).  Also, the name Chang doesn't sound very 
> Japanese to me.
> 
> I've always assumed she was British of Chinese descent.   As for 
the 
> placement of surnames, most Asian-Americans I've met choose to use 
> our order when introducing themselves when in our country(ies).

Cho Chang is most definatly not a Japanese name. The Japanese 
language doesn't have a hard "g" sound. If Chang were written in 
Japanese characters, it would be written cha-n-gu. I've also met a 
*lot* of Japanese people and I have yet to meet one named Cho or 
Chang (I live in Japan right now).

I doubt she's Korean, as the name doesn't seem similar to any Korean 
names I've heard.  Of course, I heard a rumor that Korean pop star 
BoA (she's quite a good singer and is supposed to be fluent in 
English) was going to be cast as Cho Chang, which may be where the 
Korean  theory started, but that doesn't mean that JKR intended Cho 
to be Korean.

I suspect that Cho was meant to be Chinese.

DrMM