Why is it that Japanese people don't adopt a western name but many other Asians do?

Why is it that Japanese people don't adopt a western name but many other Asians do?

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because of yamato damashii

I think only Koreans do that. My Korean friend goes by Tommy but his real name is Gun or something

Cause otherwise their names would be longer than their dicks.

They can't pronounce their name correctly.

Westerns can pronounce Japanese names

>Tommygun

>Do computing competition with Chinese guy named 'wei qui'
>pronounced like 'wiki'
>wat

What's are the most alpha Japanese names?

Jjokbari

I was literally just having this conversation the other day with a friend of mine who has a Chinese girlfriend with an adopted white girl name. It's because we can pronounce nip but we have no fucking clue how to pronounce tonal Chinese shit. Japanese is also just a much more pleasant sounding language to the western ear than Chinese is.

>Ask Viet friend to tell me how to pronounce "Nguyen"
>he says no and tells me to soumd it out so he can laugh at me
>find a youtube video on how to pronounce it
>1000 dislikes

Pls help Sup Forums

This
I can generally pronounce the Japanese student's names at work, but 50% of the time I feel uncomfortable with the Chinese student's names.

Vietnamese has like 6 or so tones.
Impossible

It literally is pronounced "hwen"

Japanese names are easy to pronounce because they don't have tonation, and almost all their sounds are in the english language. They also have a sort of fluid monosyllabic pattern like

hi - ro - yu - ki
hi - na - ta
ha - ru -to
it - su -ki

Wrong. It's En-goo-yen.

The two people I've talked to with the name said it's "hwen".

Kira Yoshikage

They were fucking with you m8.

>western name
stop slapping western on everything, they're english names

Japanese isn't that hard to pronounce and they don't have monosyllabic bullshit names

Hiro
Akira

It's actually like penguin without the p.

>monosyllabic
Not the word you were going for, I don't think.

>hiro

most beta name

Think about it
domodaruma.com/blog/most-popular-girls-boys-japanese-names-in-2015
Haruto (はると): 一温
Riku (りく): 俐空
Haru (はる): 和晴
Hinata (ひなた): 一陽
Kaito (かいと): 介人
Asahi (あさひ): 光皐陽

Two at the bare minimum, often three.

Compare to chinks with Dan, Hui, Xiao, Feng etc

Here's the IPA: ŋwiɜn˦ˀ˥
Pronounce it like this and you pass, i only know of one white guy who pronounce it correctly.

I think only flips do that

I pronounce it En-goo-en lel

Yuso Geiyo

HongKongers do that too.

I think HongKong ppl do it more than Koreans

It's only one syllable, it starts with a consonant and also end with a consant.

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They only bother pronouncing names of worthy people.

When Dutch people don't get a name they just say: "WHAT?!" "WHAT THE?!"
Increasingly loud every time they don't get it.

I can only assume Asians love that.

watashijunkabaka hyokogunzogundamgoku

We're actually the least likely to adopt one since our original names can pass as western due to colonial influence

Chinese surnames are single characters, but the given name is usually two.

I think Chinese names often sound cute and feminine and strong and masculine for girls and boys respectively, but if you pronounce them wrong it sounds silly. But they should choose an international name that is close to the Chinese. Like a friend of mine is called Shu Di (姝娣)and she uses the English name Jude.

>my name is daniel
:doubt:

lmbo

On that note south asians don't really adopt western names either.

Flips don't even register as Asian to me 2bh you guys are your own thing.

they do?

yeah but they rape the spelling so hard it becomes unrecognizable.

>mfw a Korean girl is called Soo-Ah
>SOA is the Dutch term for sexually transmittable disease

They are a very proud race.

Is he a pornstar ?

>Order & cooperation
& rape

they give themselves an "english name" as a nick name, and they do in business too even when there're no westerners, which is pretty awkward. my guess is that it motivates them in some way, and is a projection of their hivemind/collective traditional value. they project their hivemind on westerners too. i mean, they think its a effective way to be friendly or family-like with westerners.

By the way Westerners often shorten our given names. Like the name of Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai is shorten to Kaz Hirai.

japanese do the complete same way too though.

hahah good one chang

back to the sweatshop now

It is effective btw - most Westerners struggle to pronounce Chinese names and appreciate something more familiar.

i dont care much about it. justin wong, whos a fighting gamer, sounds pretty normal. every japanese calls him justin without being awkward. though like i said, its very awkward when mainlanders taiwanese etc use it in business sometimes even though there are only east asians. ive seen some even use a japanese name thats pretty fictional like anime ones on a mail.

>Hui

Has to do with pronunciation. Chink names are impossible to pronounce but Japanese ones are easy.

Kyo Kusanagi
Iori Yagami
Eiji Kisaragi