Why is it that Japanese people don't adopt a western name

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because of yamato damashii

>>75327661
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

>>75327931
>Tommygun

>>75328093
>Do computing competition with Chinese guy named 'wei qui'
>pronounced like 'wiki'
>wat

>>75327908
What's are the most alpha Japanese names?

>>75328192
Jjokbari

>>75327661
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.

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>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 /int/

>>75328234
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.

>>75328264
Vietnamese has like 6 or so tones.
Impossible

>>75328264
It literally is pronounced "hwen"

>>75327661
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

>>75328359
Wrong. It's En-goo-yen.

>>75328452
The two people I've talked to with the name said it's "hwen".

>>75328192
Kira Yoshikage

>>75328468
They were fucking with you m8.

>>75327661
>western name
stop slapping western on everything, they're english names

>>75327661
Japanese isn't that hard to pronounce and they don't have monosyllabic bullshit names

>>75328192
Hiro
Akira

>>75328468
It's actually like penguin without the p.

>>75328526
>monosyllabic
Not the word you were going for, I don't think.

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>>75328533
>hiro

most beta name

>>75328567
Think about it
https://www.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

>>75328264
>>75328359
>>75328452
>>75328468
>>75328487
>>75328542
Here's the IPA: ŋwiɜn˦ˀ˥
Pronounce it like this and you pass, i only know of one white guy who pronounce it correctly.

>>75327661
I think only flips do that

>>75328612
I pronounce it En-goo-en lel

>>75328192
Yuso Geiyo

>>75328646
HongKongers do that too.

>>75327931
I think HongKong ppl do it more than Koreans

>>75328648
It's only one syllable, it starts with a consonant and also end with a consant.

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>>75328571
delete this

>>75327661
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.

>>75328192
watashijunkabaka hyokogunzogundamgoku

>>75328646
We're actually the least likely to adopt one since our original names can pass as western due to colonial influence

>>75328603
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:

>>75328785
lmbo

>>75327661
On that note south asians don't really adopt western names either.

>>75328759
Flips don't even register as Asian to me 2bh you guys are your own thing.

>>75327661
they do?

>>75329020
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

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>>75327661
They are a very proud race.

>>75327931
Is he a pornstar ?

>>75333073
>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.

>>75327661
By the way Westerners often shorten our given names. Like the name of Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai is shorten to Kaz Hirai.

>>75337122
japanese do the complete same way too though.

>>75328754
hahah good one chang

back to the sweatshop now

>>75337036
It is effective btw - most Westerners struggle to pronounce Chinese names and appreciate something more familiar.

>>75337400
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.

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>>75328603
>Hui

>>75327661
Has to do with pronunciation. Chink names are impossible to pronounce but Japanese ones are easy.

>>75328192
Kyo Kusanagi
Iori Yagami
Eiji Kisaragi