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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The cultural appropriation is way too much for me.  I knew Matt Dunne, and he wasn't liked.[/quote]

This is something that is hard to shake. Dude changes his name to “Mateo” just before an election to honor his in-laws’ family? Yeah if that’s not cultural appropriation, I don’t what is. [/quote]

Sure the timing was weird, but his first name is the same. Mateo = Matthew.

In my family everyone has two names. Some have their english name on their birth record and their name from our ancestral place of origin on religious records, for example. Both names are their names. I honestly don’t see why people make such a big fuss generally about this.

I see this all the time with my friends who immigrated from or were born in Asia. Again, no big deal.

It is sweet to honor someone he was close to by changing the spelling/language. It would’ve been better maybe to do it at a different time, but when is it really ever an ideal time?[/quote]

New poster. I agree. Who cares?

My family is from Spain and when we visit all Anglo names get "translated," at least by the older generations. Not the same thing at all, but just saying... this is not a big deal.[/quote]

No, really it is a big deal. Please name how many white 40-something men you know born, raised and living in the US that have taken their name and changed it to the version from another culture. 
This was a political move, pure and simple. [/quote]

Not a man, but Hillary Baldwin changed her name to Hilaria Baldwin because her family went to Spain before.[/quote]

Oh goodness. This is a terrible example if you are trying to defend Mateo.[/quote]

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