Good job is guys are so easy to please.
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George does seem a lot more user-friendly than âChandashekarâ
I donât know about you, but Iâd feel a bit miffed if someone felt they had to dumb down their own name because they think I canât pronounce it. Comes across a bit âsorry, youâre too thick to get your mouth around my name so letâs pick something simple you can bark out easily, eh?â
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It depends.
I can totally understand this guyâs story in the newspaper. My name is frequently written with mistakes, Iâm regularly misgendered, etc. I donât care, but I can understand how others are fed up of living like like this and just want a break. Mr. Family Man just wants a successful business and live in peace with his family, let him have it.
The RadosavljeviÄ family confirmed to northwestern Switzerland their application for a name change, but did not want to comment further. However, the reasoning of the family is also recorded in the administrative decision of the canton of Schwyz. The corresponding order is available to the newspaper. This is based on the familyâs will to change the name, among other things, by the fact that their business suffers from the foreign name. Many of their Swiss customers would struggle to pronounce their name and remember it. In addition, the 5-year-old daughter also has trouble to pronounce him correctly. The fear of the parents: In an emergency, she will have trouble spelling the name correctly. In general, relationship with authorities and institutions is also tedious. Often their name must be spelled and the contact persons are each unsettled whether the correct spelling.
Itâs positive that people have the freedom to chose their own identity. This is another thorny issues I wonât touch, letâs just celebrate the freedom 
But, itâs only a freedom, not an obligation. Passive idiots like me are free to keep their name. Or people with more assertive personalities fought (and won) for having characters from Eastern Europe languages included in the Swiss passport.
The nice thing here is the freedom to live life in our own terms. Thanks Switzerland.
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You have a point. It reminded me of a uni friend who went to work in Madrid (not as a barber). Sheâs called Siobhan.
I think in Switzerland people cannot just change their name unless they prove that they are being discriminated because of it (cannot find job etc).
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born in ? 
My last name has four letters and I have yet to meet a German who can pronounce it, let alone write down in the correct order.
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One of the kids that went to Kindergarten with mine had the name âSwastikaâ. Perhaps her parents wanted to Germanify her name.
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Coming back to the barbershopsâŚdo they accept credit cards, or only cash?..
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Hereâs the UK version
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What??? Experimental data?
Well, I donât cut my hear on those places, but I tried to go to a couple of places serviced by asian people to get a simple manicure, and none of them accepted anything but cashâŚâcard machine is brokenâ.
WaitâŚwhere have I heard this before⌠Ah, yes ! Greece! 
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I was joking.
The credit card or twint is the simplest way to test the idea of âmoney launderingâ. If barbers accept CC, Iâd itâs quite probably not money laundering. So, no need to speculate. Anyway, I guess narratives are stronger than any data.
Ah, the cash economy. Long history of that. AFAIK it is used mainly to avoid tax. Money-laundering is almost the opposite, somewhere in the chain a âreceiptâ has to appear. Accepting your legal cash is not laundering anything.
I agree and they like to have a mix of cash and credit, looks less suspicious.
Indeed, there were reports during Covid of business owners such as barber shops/hairdressers who werenât eligible for much Covid relief money because their taxable earnings as reported were super low. I guess cheating on taxes worked great until there was a pandemic and the shop couldnât open.
What about getting black money (drugs money) into the system?
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