The most awesome yearbook ever
@CaptAlbertWhisker (32760)
Calgary, Alberta
May 19, 2012 10:38am CST
In The state of California, San Jose is one of the cities with the biggest Vietnamese American community,In a High school in San Jose, 8 Vietnamese American girls have something in common... Their Last name. Nguyen is one of the most common Vietnamese last names in the whole world.
People always have the assumption that these girls are sisters/cousins because of their last name so look what they did in their year book....Its very clever!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2146018/Is-best-senior-year-quote-EIGHT-school-girls-insist-related-yearbook-prank.html#ixzz1vJuWABbx
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I can relate with this story a lot cos I remember during elementary there is a girl and a boy who have the same lastnames with me and people always have the assumption they were my siblings.
During your life as a student, do you have classmates mistaken as your relative?
During your life as a student, do you have classmates mistaken as your relative?1 person likes this
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
19 May 12
I only had 3 first cousins.
My brother, sister and I look related, but we look nothing like our cousins.
I ended up with a paternal cousin in a college class.
She had dark, curly hair and I have blonde straightish hair.
But we were sitting beside each other on the first day of class and the prof asked - after calling our names if we were related and we said yes.
Now, my last name isn't REAL common, but there was two other people with the same last name, and one of the families lived in the school area I did. I was always being asked if one of them was related, but I had to say - "I don't know them."
Even stranger is that there was a gal who looked enough like me that we could've BEEN related AND she had the same first name as my sister... Fortunately I actually KNEW her!
so, I was always being asked if I had a sister named "P" and I would have to ask where they knew her from. Generally they were asking about wrong "P".
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32760)
• Calgary, Alberta
20 May 12
so you case is the opposite of your case because your answer to the question, "are you related is yes" how was it to go to school with a cousin , did it make you closer or did you distance on each other? are you friends with that cousin? I remember I have classmates who are cousins, one is smart and pretty and one is not smart in attractive,In my country to be the most popular kid in class, you have to be smart.... the smart one is so ashamed of her cousin.... she always deny her.
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
20 May 12
I worked with an Adoption Registry for a while and so I heard some interesting stories.
Like the guy who was placed with a family who was only blocks from the neighborhood that his bio-mother was from and grew up playing with his actual cousins but not knowing he was related until he was an adult.
Or the twin girls who were separated and place with different families in different cities. Then the one family moved to the other family's city and the girls grew up as classmates and best friends and people were always commenting on how much they looked alike - and it turned out they were identical twins.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32760)
• Calgary, Alberta
20 May 12
well at least its tragic not like the brother and sister who didnt know they were siblings and they got married.
that one would be traumatizing.
that one would be traumatizing.1 person likes this
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
13 Sep 12
Well Played,Ladies!
My own surname is quite common here in this part of Ireland,but there's never been any mixups or confusion in the sense of a "maybe" relative..though when I was a senior at my last school,a kid brought his friend over to be introduced one time-as We both had the same first name and surname!
My own surname is quite common here in this part of Ireland,but there's never been any mixups or confusion in the sense of a "maybe" relative..though when I was a senior at my last school,a kid brought his friend over to be introduced one time-as We both had the same first name and surname!@CaptAlbertWhisker (32760)
• Calgary, Alberta
19 Sep 12
who knows those people could be your relatives but they were like your 173nd cousin. I have a feeling the reason why Nguyen is a widespread lastname in Vietnam. the ancestor of the Nguyen clan may have lots of sons and those sons produced more sons.
I have a feeling the reason why Nguyen is a widespread lastname in Vietnam. the ancestor of the Nguyen clan may have lots of sons and those sons produced more sons.
@jaiho2009 (39140)
• Philippines
19 May 12
hello Capt,
And they also has resemblance (hehehe)
My surname is not common so, I don't have any problem with surname.
But yes, these girls are indeed smart huh 
@CaptAlbertWhisker (32760)
• Calgary, Alberta
20 May 12
they were classmates throughout their lives so I guess they got so sick of being asked if they were relatives or not over and over again. so I guess that yearbook is their way to close the chapter..... I was thinking though why dont they try DNA test....
