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Reply to "Should white women who marry "ethnic" men change their last names?"
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[quote=Anonymous]I didn't change my name because we had to travel immediately after our wedding and lived in a state that required extra steps to do certain formats of name changes with a marriage license. I wish I had. My last name is one that sounds very "white people here since the 17th century" and on paper is a a totally straightforward WASP-y surname. I never experienced mispronunciations or misspellings with it until well into my 30s. Now my name is constantly mangled, mispronounced, and misspelled. My DH's name is one of the most generic Chinese-American names. I use his for restaurant reservations, at our kid's school, and a million other places. When I use DH's name I enjoy the privilege of having a name that everyone can pronounce and spell. No one blinks, but I live in an area where "mismatched" names are pretty common. Once in a while at hotels or school he is called Mr. MyLastName, and we both get a kick out of that.[/quote]
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