Names and nationalities (was: something old and tired)

Don't say "despite my name," please.

My grandfather invented my last name when he smuggled himself into the
US,
and never did tell anyone what it used to be (although probably
Lipschitz or
something on that line, considering he almost certainly came from Poland
and
was Jewish). 

One nice thing about Lipsett and Szabo both is that they are as fine and
upstanding American names as any other fine and upstanding American
name:
Smith, Brown, Wheeler, Schmidt, de Masi, Gujurao, Tzembe, Kim, Nakamura,
Chin, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

on 02.5.31 0:01 PM, Imre A. Szabo at ias@sprintmail.com scribbleth:
>
> By the way, despite what many of you may think because of my name, I
am a
> third generation American.  I was born and am a U.S. citizen.

-- 
I suggest that the only books which influence us are those for which we
are
ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path
than we
have yet got ourselves.
- E.M. Forster, "Two Cheers for Democracy"
-- 
Edward Lipsett
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