Reflection on Munoz

What are the outcomes of leaving your name at the border?
Leaving your name at the border can have many outcomes, some can be downgrading and others can improve your lifestyle in a foreign country. By leaving your name at the border it can increase your opportunities on getting a better job, or not be discriminated against because of it. Most of the downgrading outcomes have to do more within yourself as a person. One can be viewed as a follower or someone trying to fit in to a society that vilifies one's original name. There are two ways you can view the fact of leaving your name at the border, one being that you are trying to have a better future for yourself and improving your lifestyle, and the other as a person trying to assimilate and forget about their past. Growing up in this country having a name that has been mispronounce by many people, personally has never crossed my mind of changing it. Even though many of my peers call me Benny instead of Benito has never been a problem with me, as it all started through my parents with the reason that my dad has the same name and at home it was hard to know when family members would be calling me or my dad. With that reason it got stuck with me, friends know me as Benny but I like to introduce myself as Benito no matter where I'm at. I say this because some people may like to be called by a different name depending on their surroundings, with the fact that they like to "fit in". I am proud of my name, and i have not yet faced any barriers caused by the origin of my name and if i was to ever change it, it would be for a better lifestyle, not to "fit in".