| After reading most of above comment, I agree that the name is just a code for a person. It means that it could be very serious but also pointless, just depends on your requirement. If you want to emphasize your own national-cultural characteristic, especially when you live abroad, you want to be distinguished from other people, you may use it! If you want to involve yourself into local culture and make you acceptable and make people easier remember you, the best choice surely is having an local language name. Different people have different attempt and usage for their names in various occasions. So is the meaningless to argue that whether we should use English name and Chinese name. It just dements. In sum, from my viewpoint, “name” is just a tool which serves people, it’s unnecessary to so much care about something that so call “culture”. What is culture? Culture is just our real life; it is flexible, but not frozen by some lifeless conception. |
Why I Don't Have an English Name