More than 300 people in Taiwan officially changed its name to “Salmon” in March to receive free sushi as part of the restaurant’s promotion. Taipei Times He noted on Saturday that the phenomenon had prompted Taiwanese lawmakers to discuss restrictions on official name changes last week.
“In March, the Sushiro restaurant chain launched a promotion offering free all-you-can-eat sushi across the table for anyone with Chinese salmon, gui yu (鮭 魚) to their name. The so-called “salmon chaos” included 331 people who paid a nominal administrative fee to legally call themselves names, including “Salmon Dream” and “Dancing Salmon”, which later recalled the role on May 28.
In mid-March 2021, he legally changed his name to “Salmon Dream” and then demanded NT$400 (US$14.05) from foreigners to have dinner with him under his new nickname,” said a student at the Chinese Medical University in Taichung, Taiwan. in April. 2021.
At the time, the Taiwanese federal government openly criticized Sushiro’s marketing methods. Taipei has denounced a Japanese restaurant advertising campaign that bombed Taiwan’s interior ministry with a batch of name change requests and the creation of “senseless extra jobs for the paperwork bureaucracy.” Taipei Times.
Sushiro’s brief introduction in March 2021 resulted in a permanent name change to some Taiwanese citizens, including the college student now known as the “Salmon Dream”. These individuals have officially changed their names twice before changing to “Salmon”, meaning they have reached the official limit of three name changes per capita set by the Taiwanese government.
“After the salmon uprising, some people changed their names three times and now there is no way to get them back,” Taiwan MP Chiu Hsien-chih of the centre-left New Power Party said on May 26.
Chiu spoke at a discussion about possible changes to Taiwan’s regulation to change its official name to the national legislature, or Legislative Yuan. During the House deliberations, he proposed “other suggestions, including salary changes and reflection periods.” Several lawmakers from Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the pro-Chinese opposition Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) called on Taipei on May 26 to “torture” citizens to change their names legally. Other lawmakers, including DPP member Kuan Biling, have said they oppose the restriction on legal name changes. He said such measures would serve as “interference in people’s daily lives.”
“Our confidence in civic rationality is very low,” Kuan said during the discussion.
A Taiwanese lawyer named Lin Chih-chung suggested in a March 2021 Facebook post, at the height of the “salmon mayhem” hysteria, that a way to circumvent Taiwan’s legal limit on renaming it.
“Lin, paragraph 2 of Article 9 [Taiwan] The naming law… states that a person can change their name if they “have the exact same name as an older relative of three kinship levels,” Taiwan News reported at the time.
The attorney suggested that a person subject to the name change restriction encourage a close relative, such as a parent, to change their name to the same nickname associated with the salmon, thus creating a scenario where further name changes are required. .
“Of course, it is assumed that the relative did not exceed the name change quota or that only one name remained,” Taiwan News reported.
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