Your identity and name is an essential part of life to define who you are as a person. In the article, “Does My Child’s Name Erase My Identity?,” Lin struggles with this as she doesn’t want to give her daughter the same name as her. Lin states, “the discussion about multicultural families is often about the benefits of multiplicity but less about the loss that comes from the fact that memories can only hold so much.” I think that by giving her daughter the same name as her it can help keep her name alive for generations to come and appreciate her name and identify as a person more. Throughout the article it explains how Lin goes through her head debating weather she should give her daughters her name and in the end she realizes that it will keep their culture alive for years to come. Lin’s name is very close to her culture being unique so keeping the name in the family only hold her Japanese’s heritage and her daughter will appreciate the name caring on in the future as well.