Rob A. wrote:One of the downsides of living in a homogeneous society.... I think most somewhat aware people in Canada would have little trouble with that name... maybe a slightly mangled version....and I think it would be quickly recognized...I think correctly, as a Polish Jewish name.... That's multiculturalism for you.... Right onkko?!?...onkko wrote:And for foreigners, ben z is our "people who have odd names and are in politics and no one can pronounce it".
Well we dont have a problem with foreign names, foreigns have a problem how we pronouonce and write those
Lets think about local "foreign" names i know for sure. Hagelin, Berg, Gehör, Lillbacka, Huczkowski, Bergmann. Those are all names i know but pronounciation is far from original and since atleast few of those are atleast 4 generations old then local pronounciation is as correct as original.
For example my great grandfather (or was it his father) changed his name from Berg to current name because his father went to USA and died/vanished there and caused more than little of problems and that childs were forced to be "huutolainen".
Every one of example surnames is a finn withouth multiculturalism
