>Immigrants into Canada, as far as I know, have the option to choose a name - at least a first name. That's why we get, for example, Chinese guys named Manfred. (I really had a friend like that a number of years ago).
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I went to school (MANY years ago) in Binghamton, NY. There was a Chineese restaurant named Tommy Ryan's. It was named after the owner. Yes, he was Chineese



>>Hi,
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>>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.