Almost 3years hrt no chosen name. I have a Chinese moidname but I want a American name is it clocky
imagine wanting to be white
bless
I live in America and don’t really speak much Chinese I feel like if I picked a Chinese name it’s kind of larping
i speak broken turkish and still have… arabic and persian names.
Fair enough
I hate crackkkers but you can do what you want
It might be worth taking one just for job purposes, managers r racist as shit
If ur in the west most Chinese people have western names, or will go by western names despite having a Chinese name, so if ur in the west it should be fine. I also remember seeing a movie in China where one of the main characters was born and raised in China and had a western name. Or you can do one of those white names that sound close to a Chinese name to have both like Emily
Not at all if you are Chinese and live in a white country. When I was in college, cis Chinese women would very very frequently have their Chinese name (which they never told anyone) and their white name (which they used to introduce themselves to white people)
Their reasoning, usually, was that the code switch between English and Mandarin (especially with getting into the tonal headspace) makes it feel awkward to say Chinese words in the middle of an English sentence, and that it was annoying to hear people mispronounce their Chinese name
Names Chinese people I have worked with or met have gone by paired with their original name if I know it:
Girls:
Xylia (Greek origin pseudonym, don’t know her Chinese name)
Rain (雨欣)
Cecelia (yan something? I think it was 艳)
Boys:
Willhelm (idk his original name we had German class together and weren’t friends)
Patrick Wàng (idk his original name he wouldn’t tell me, but I know Patrick was his “English name” and not the one on his birth certificate)
It’s pretty normal in America, it’s not clocky at all
I don’t think it’s really clocky.
