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My Last Name Research Paper

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My Last Name I was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico the perfect blend of Native American and Mexican culture. My last name has been traced back there since before it became a state in 1912. The area is as a part of me as the blood flowing through my veins. That’s where I spent the first eight years of my life, my last name was never seen as uncommon or strange. I was never the only one in my school to have the name, the phone book had page after page of Lovato’s plastering its pages. I never realized how uncommon, it was until I moved to Las Vegas, where me and my brother were the only Lovato’s amongst our peers. People would assume I was Italian, when my family on three sides came from Mexico. If my last name was Sanchez or Martinez would …show more content…

They would taunt me and tell me that I wasn't a real Mexican, that I was a fake who had no place to belong. All because of a name that was passed down my one fourth of my family tree. Their assumption was based on location, they grew up in the Las Vegas valley, where Lovato is uncommon. If they grew up in Albuquerque they would realize that there are thousand of hispanic’s who have that name. The only thing that changed people’s perception of my name was when Demi Lovato came to fame. The name became more recognizable connecting it to Mexican heritage, yet everyone assumed that I was somehow related to her. My name went from obsolete to well known based on someone in the public eye who randomly had the same name as me. I wonder if that happens with other people who have the same last names as celebrities, does that change the perception of that name. If I met someone with the last name Winfrey, I would automatically think of Oprah even if the person looked nothing like her. It’s interesting how certain people shape the perception of a name thousands of people probably

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