Yeah, exactly Nothing I said has anything to do with wanting to be perceived as white or Western
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Were "Washington" and "Jefferson" American surnames? They obviously existed before there was an America, and are surnames from England, which for a while was America's enemy in war When Eisenhower led US forces against Germany he did so with a German surname
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Of course I know that in practice the USA is treated by many people as a white ethnostate even though it's not supposed to be, and it's only over time that people with Italian, Irish, Spanish, etc surnames get folded into "real Americanness" What I am saying is this is bullshit
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I haven't bothered following this dispute to its origins, so maybe I've missed something along the way, but that is precisely why it seems absurd to me to claim that it is an American surname. You might as well say it is a 'democratic' or 'Christian' surname
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My point is I think of my so-called "mixed" name on my birth certificate ("Arthur Chu", the one you can see on my bio) as my "real name" and am fucking sick of being told it's somehow less authentic than if I went by an "unmixed" name like if I were white and named Arthur Charles
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Where do these people find you?
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"these people"? What group exactly am I a member of?
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