Talk:Carlos Thompson

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What evidence that he was Swiss/German? Orbicle 12:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

The question seems to be directed to me, since it was I who added that bit.

First of all, I should have written "German Swiss". Cf. de:Carlos Thompson, where it says: "Sohn deutsch-schweizerischer Einwanderer" which translates to "son of German Swiss immigrants". The German expression "deutsch-schweizerisch" refers to people of Swiss nationality and German mother tongue (to distinguish them from Swiss people who talk Italian, French, or Rhaeto-Romanian - these are the four official Swiss languages).

His descent can be guessed, in addition, from his birth name. On various web pages related to film his birth name is given as "Mundanschaffter" (see [1]) or "Mundin Mundanschaffter" or "Mundin Schafter" (see [2]). While I was unable to find "Mundanscha(f)fter" in the current German or Swiss phone directory, the names "Mundin" as well as "Schaf(f)ter" appear in the Swiss online white pages.

So my conclusion - for lack of sources - is that probably his mother's maiden name was "Mundin" and his father's name was "Schafter". In Argentinia, following the Spanish naming conventions these two names might have been coupled together to form his Argentinian name, of which "Mundanschaffter" could be a corrupted form. Hope this clears it up. --Kauko56 21:11, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Mmm, I have a Polish lastname, that doesn't make me nor my parents Polish. (In fact, they are not). And in Argentina your Father's surname would come before your mother's. Mariano(t/c) 08:09, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Names don't mean much, I was born with a Polish surname, but they said we were always Germans even though my Grandmother spoke some Polish because she'd come from a German place close to Poland and which became Poland after WWI. The Grandfather from where the name came died so early that I do not know if he spoke a bit of Polish. I subsequently discovered that the name exists in Catholic, Polish, Jewish, German circles. Names are not really that indicative. If you look at Carlos Thompson he does not look typically Argentinian who are mostly of Italian, Spanish and indiginous origin. He does not look like that so the Swiss connections would gel with me. If one were to know what his parents' first names were, one would be a little wiser. 58.174.193.2 (talk) 02:14, 24 December 2015 (UTC)