From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   His Xhosa first name was Rolihlahla.   
   He was often addressed as Madiba (his clan name) as a sign of respect.   
      
   "On my first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an   
   English name, and said that thenceforth that was the name we would   
   answer to in school....[She] told me that my new name was Nelson..."   
      
   This reminded me of the story of Yat Hang Mew. When I was growing up in   
   Vancouver, we knew him as Angus Leung, proprietor of Varsity Produce,   
   the local greengrocer. He came to Canada from south China in the 1920s,   
   aged 15. Laws respecting Chinese immigration were getting more   
   restrictive, so he had to pretend to be the son of a family friend who   
   was already resident, and assumed his surname (Leung). He was sent to an   
   English language class. "I wanted to learn English...so I took the first   
   seat in the first row, right up front....[The teacher said] 'I'm going   
   to put a list of English names on the board, and I want each of you to   
   pick one, then you'll have a name English people can remember.'...I   
   thought 'I'm in the first seat in the first row, so I'll take the first   
   name. Which was "Angus"."   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)