On the other hand, this comes at a cost. My name is Martin C. Martin. I was born Martin C. Hilgerdenaar, and changed it in college. A dutch friend remarked t

On the other hand, this comes at a cost. My name is Martin C. Martin. I was born Martin C. Hilgerdenaar, and changed it in college. A dutch friend remarked that changing your name is very very hard in Holland: a roofer whose last name was the Dutch word for leaky had to go through all these hoops to change his name. He said that, in general, Europe has a kind of conformity. From what I've seen, many European countries are also racially homogeneous, and a little xenophobic. Even Geoff Hinton, a big name in Machine Learning, had to move back to Canada after a few years of living in England because his black son encountered an overwhelming amount of discrimination. And I think England is more racially diverse than a lot of European countries.