My surname is sorta Spanish, although when people take a look at my WASPY visage they always ask if it French. It is a Spanish surname, a Filipino one, yet no one believes it of me.....it's almost like they swear my name is Sutton Averell Townsend or something......
What amazes me is how marketing mailing lists classify someone based upon the assumed heritage of their last names. I receive La Latina, Hispanic and Ole news letters without ever having requested them. Seeing that I am a nice girl whose parentage is half Southern Gothic WASP and half Eastern European Jew, I always find it amusing; especially if you consider the fact that my ex, while a hippy, is one of the whitest guys I know.
Has anyone else gotten on the wrong end of a mailing list?
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No I haven't but I think that's funny!
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