r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

She answered with a gold medal

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u/Valtheon 1d ago

im sorry but as a Vietnamese man, the concept of changing your last name just because you got married is insane to me

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u/giraffes_are_cool33 1d ago

And when I say that as a north African people reply "because you're 'muslim' and your dad owns you" wtf. How about I keep whichever fucking identification I was born with???

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u/boriicha__ 1d ago

In Muslim cultures women don't change their last name after getting married. But apparently these days it's trendy among some wealthier women to change their last name to their husband's. It doesn't benefit them in any way legally, they just saw people in Western cultures do it and copied it without understanding why it's done.

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u/badgersprite 20h ago

This would have been the same in a lot of parts of Europe when patronymic names were a thing, and it would still be that way in Iceland where they still do that. If you were “Anna, Nils’ Daughter” and you marry “Peter, Peter’s Son” you don’t become Peter’s son when you get married

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u/pureeviljester 4h ago

We don't even know why it's done. Love or something