Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24971181-20150521172621

Recently, the Uzumaki siblings' Hyuuga state and Tsunade's Uzumaki state is removed.

I think that, the clan state is also an "interesting feature" like the "classification".

Tsunade is never stated as "Tsunade Senju" and herself didn't state her as a "Senju clan member". But the fact is well-known by many.

Also it seems unfair to let the siblings not listed as a hyuuga descendant.

And the Shika-Ino-Cho's respective spouse, also Sakura's clan status is ambiguous.

In Asian countries this kind of things is, in fact ambiguous. For example, in the movie "Summer Wars", the heroine comes to celebrate her mother's paternal grandmother's birthday, and are thought as a member of this powerful family.

In reality, In Japan: It doesn't matter that the child/adult follow the mother/father/spouse's surname, but the surname under a household must be same. In Chinese: Children usually take father's surname, while their mother remain her original surname. Sometimes the child can take mother, even grandmother's surname. It's a causal things in the urban areas.

The two countries still have a lot of gender inequalities compared to the western world (in different ways). But in the educated and modern citizens, this is not a problem. In many Japanese anime, the child take the mother's surname (eg. in Type-moon series)

'''SOLUTION:

Normal status (without the "~" in editor): People have the surname, as well as the genetic link of this clan. Genetic: People have the bloodline (Expect the Ootsutsuki, because it's unknown that every shinobi is descended from it) of a clan (one of the parents or grandparents are a formal member) Marital: For people who doesn't have the genetic link, but married in the clan (preferably a woman use the husband's clan cresent, like Hinata and Sakura). It can appease the shippers a lot.(Mikoto is a expection, because her surname is Uchiha, and she is very likely to born in Uchiha Clan)'''

See also a dead discussion of mine: http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:157080 