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  • Luckily, I managed to show my passport without showing my name as I held my thumb over my surname, and they didn't twig who I was.

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  • When a child is born, the question comes up again: his surname, hers, hyphenated combination or an altogether new name?

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  • Are the privileged Mandelas - however much one respects the name and the legacy, and sympathises with the burden such a surname must sometimes be - best placed to champion the middle classes?

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  • He left for the U.S. when still in high school, graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with an economics degree and, upon his return to Japan, insisted on using his Korean surname, Son, instead of Yasumoto, the Japanese name his parents had taken.

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