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Wait... What's wrong with "Cho Chang"???
Cho is a Korean surname and Chang is a Chinese one. It's kinda like calling your Irish character McGregor O'Conner
thats funny im stealing that name
Make sure you also take his buddy, Fernandez Cousteau.
Eh, this seems overblown to me. Plenty of better battles to pick on with that author
Just sayin' that it's reasonable evidence to suggest that she picked "Samsara" without really noodling through the cultural implications.
In isolation, nothing much at all. But all her non-WASP characters have lazy, stereotypical names, so it's a little more suspicious. Combine that with knowing she's an enormous bigot in real life, and yeah, there might be a problem with that.
Kingsley Shacklebolt
Seamus O'Carbomb or whatever the Irish kid's name was