Hi, Peter.

>Just curious, when a family immigrates in the US or Canada or Argentina or whatever country, do they eventually alter the first name and surname. If so, why and how?
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>I'm asking this, because here in the Netherlands this is currently not the practice. The result is that a lot of immigrants have names that 'we' can hardly or not at all pronounce. A solution I see is that people alter their original name when they immigrate.

Almost no people change their last names here in Argentina. But I don't see a point to that. How many times people pronounced or wrote your last name incorrectly. Mine is pretty easy to pronounces here, and yet people still get it incorrectly. Many people even confuse my first name with Matías (I guess this is somehow related to the sound of my first and last names sounding together).

What kind of names should people here at the UT use? 8-)

I guess most cosmopolitan cities nowadays are full of different sorts of names.

Regards,