How did a Chinese guy end up with a Tamil name?
I recently met a Chinese man in Toronto and got to know that his name was Kandasamy.
I asked him, "How did you get a name like that being Chinese?"
He said, βMany, many years ago when I first arrived in Canada, I was standing in line at the Political Asylums Immigration Counter, and the man in front of me was a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee.β
The lady at the counter looked at him and asked, βWhat is your name?"
The Sri Lankan refugee replied "Kandβ¦