To be uncomfortable about MP profiling us by surname

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DH has a common chinese surname (could also be Korean). He has just recieved a letter from our MP telling us about the great work he is doing for his Chinese constituents and inviting us to a bash at the town hall for the chinese new year. We are baffled by this as have never signed up for anything to indicate either our support for the MP or any involvement in the Chinese community. From the wording it looks like they have gone through the electoral register and sent this to all the constituants with a chinese sounding name.
I find this very strange but can't quite put my finger on why it concerns me so much.

It would concern me because the MP is presuming a lot! He is defining your ethnicity for you based on your surname.

You should say yes to the tickets and get a white/or black/indian couple to turn up in your place. Might confuse the heck out of them.

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I keep getting these sorts of letters but mine are about local environmental issues, I have never had any interest in windfarms and I pretty sure I never would have put my name down for this and yet they keep coming. They even followed me when I moved!

Dilemma, why do they have aim correspondence? Why do we want Eid cards from our MPs? Even more wtf at profiling by first name. (starts thinking of marketing for chavs/posh people etc).
This also targets men far more than women as the surname changes so often on marriage.

With a name like mine, no MP has been able to work out how to profile me yet!

I thought you meant morningpaper! I was wondering how on earth she was allowed access to our personal details, and contemplating complaining to MNHQ!

I thought you meant MorningPaper!!

DS1s school rang me to ask if I required a translator for parents evening based on my surname. I was a bit miffed, although I suppose it's proactive of them to offer one, just a bit patronising in application. (Logically, if they'd actually looked at my name they could have seen that my first name is very British, and I'm married so 'non-English speaking' surname is DHs and translation is probably not required)

I thought morningpaper had taken her admin duties too seriously

Dilemma - are you called Ethel?

David Cameron sent a card to my neighbour on his 18th. I was a bit at that

I have a very irish surname through marriage, but I am half malaysian... that'll confuse the feckers

You can tell it's the run up to an election, we never hear from the feckers at other times.

I too thought you meant MorningPaper had gone in for some kind of criminal profiling and was about to be very afraid...

I to thought MP was morningpaper and MNHQ was up to something!

I have a very Jewish sounding surname and first name, my maiden name was also Jewish sounding.

Not Jewish (well not for the last 100 years anyway).

OH is black. When his dad arrived to pick up the keys for the house he had bought the bloke who sold it too him was outraged - he thought he had sold it to a nice Jewish family.

Ha/

I don't know whether to be offended of not about my family never getting eid cards from our MP! we have a very Persian surname and have never had anything through apart from my junior school asking my Dad to play translator for a few Iranian student's parents!

why, can't you be black and Jewish? Though obviously more unusual.

I have a Chinese name. I have nothing to show for it.

Well of course you can be black and Jewish. You can be Japanese and Scottish Episcopalian but its not very common.

There is an Ethiopean Jewish sect.

But it was highly unlikley that an immigrant from Guyana in the 1950s was going to turn up at the house in a Skull cap and ear locks.

yes your right, just I lived in Israel for a little while and saw plenty of black Jews as well as blond, blue eyed ones so don't always expect the usual stereotype.

Oh, just be thankful they are trying.