Stilly, I have two contradictions to your article about gratuitous name changing, one an old story and the other as recent as yesterday.

My uncle once told me he was eating at a Chinese restaurant in New York and the waiters had little name tags. His oriental waiter's read "Israel". He asked the waiter what his name was and the reply was "Israel Horowitz". How did that happen my uncle asked him. -Well, it was the name of the guy ahead of me in the immigration lineup. - That sounds crazy- said my uncle -what's your name originally? -Sam Ting.

And just last night the Simpsons had to re-immigrate to the United States, from France this time. They were told by immigration you're names too long. From now on you're the Simps. -Saves Time said Homer.

So Stilly, I think you're going to have to check your documents as to immigration policy because the above examples are rather blatent.