You clearly haven’t met Brazilians
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Lauchmelder@feddit.org 6 days agowith hyphenated names: what would the children do then? you can’t keep adding more and more names like that (both practically and legally in some cases). serious question because I’ve also thought about that
trolololol@lemmy.world 6 days ago
phcorcoran@lemmy.world 6 days ago
In Canada, you legally pick up to 2 of your parents’ last names for your last name
uis@lemm.ee 5 days ago
In
SovietRussia you pick a last name. Any last name. Except containing numbers, non-letter, more than one hyphen, rank or job title.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
My name is Maximus Decimus Arnold Garfield Butcher Smith Hendrickson Meridius, and you shall have my name.
dingus@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I think it varies with culture, but from my understanding, usually they take the first name of the two hyphens for their own marriage.
So you have John Doe and Jane Smith. They hyphenate their names as Doe-Smith and the children do as well.
Say they have a daughter Sally Doe-Smith who meets Tim Johnson-Star. So they marry and hyphenate their names as Johnson-Doe.
Yes, in examples like this, it still ends up as getting rid of the maternal aspect of it in the end…but the point is still that both parties are keeping part of and changing another part of their names. It’s not an all or nothing total switch of identity. The lineage is male, but the here and now is an equal compromise of identity.
trolololol@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Not enough to balance things out
dingus@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Maybe not quite, but iml it’s certainly leaps and bounds better that altering your identity entirely in submission of a partner.