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)
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)