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<blockquote data-quote="ridered3" data-source="post: 649131" data-attributes="member: 1371"><p>Had a handful of Patel's in several of my college classes. One day I asked why they all had the same last name, but no relation. The explanation given was that when they come to the US, they can either elect to keep their given last name (likely not pronounceable by Americans) or change last name to something more common. So to them, Patel is the equivalent of the last name of Smith to the Americans.</p><p></p><p>Not sure if that is 100% the ways things are, but that was how it was explained to me by a Patel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ridered3, post: 649131, member: 1371"] Had a handful of Patel's in several of my college classes. One day I asked why they all had the same last name, but no relation. The explanation given was that when they come to the US, they can either elect to keep their given last name (likely not pronounceable by Americans) or change last name to something more common. So to them, Patel is the equivalent of the last name of Smith to the Americans. Not sure if that is 100% the ways things are, but that was how it was explained to me by a Patel. [/QUOTE]
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