• linearchaos@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I used to work with a guy that was from China. He only had a first in a last name. He was going to college here and the college required everyone to have a middle initial as part of their login. They just used his last initial as his middle initial.

        • ylph@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          Not true, I am a naturalized US citizen, and don’t have a middle name - it was never an issue and I was never asked to come up with one. My son was born in the US and also doesn’t have a middle name.

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      1 month ago

      I knew that middle names are common in the US but I didn’t know it’s so deep in the culture

    • gerryflap@feddit.nl
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      1 month ago

      Wait does everyone there have a middle name? I’m Dutch and I don’t have a middle name. I figured that was quite common also in the English speaking world