Like seriously, if Rey is okay picking a family name she isn't related to, why didn't she just *do* that? Why didn't she *already* call herself Rey Skywalker since Luke was her hero? Why didn't she pick Solo after Han died?
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The Dutch didn't typically have family surnames until Napoleon conquered them in 1811 and forced a census on them for tax purposes This is why while "von" ("of/from") in a German name implies a noble house, in Dutch everyone has a name like that and it means nothing
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Isn't "van" more common in the Netherlands?
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There's a whole book about this kind of shit, called Seeing Like a State. And it is excellent, but also I am only barely smart enough to understand it, so I think a fair amount went over my head.
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The library has it! And I'm eleventh in the wait list, dang. Popular book.
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