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In reply to the discussion: Why Can't Rafael Use His REAL Name? [View all]CreekDog
(46,192 posts)I usually love your posts kpete, but there is nothing wrong with using a middle name.
A middle name is a real name. How do you not know that? How does anybody not understand that a middle name is a real name?
By the way, Jerry Brown. Edmund Gerald Brown. See?
But a person of Hispanic heritage, they aren't allowed to use Anglo sounding names even if their parents gave them an Anglo sounding name.
What's next? Criticizing a Chinese American who has been given both a Chinese and an Americanized name and uses the Americanized one?
I know you aren't trying to be racially or ethnically insensitive, but you are being that way in this case. But unlike most who do that here, I suspect you will respond to reason if confronted logically and on the basis of reason.