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When Americans move to China do they take on fake Chinese names

every Chinese person I've ever met uses some very white-soun...
Primrose heady base
  10/11/17
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Cheese-eating well-lubricated den
  10/13/17
Jews always do this
concupiscible garnet stain plaza
  12/04/19
Yup they all take Chinese names. The surname will usually b...
duck-like cerebral circlehead
  12/04/19
that's weird and fraudulent they should take a chinese firs...
aphrodisiac citrine becky crackhouse
  12/04/19
i thought we had an issue with turdskins who come here and D...
Dashing Confused Elastic Band Home
  12/04/19
I have no issues with anybody
Primrose heady base
  12/05/19
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Cracking Drunken Tanning Salon Electric Furnace
  12/05/19
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Big public bath coffee pot
  12/15/25
yeah generally everyone who learns chinese chooses/is given ...
twinkling dead parlor son of senegal
  12/04/19
Not really. Even if they do, everyone calls them by their Am...
startling contagious church building
  12/05/19
The more common Western names have Chinese transliterations....
Electric dilemma
  12/15/25


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Date: October 11th, 2017 10:16 AM
Author: Primrose heady base

every Chinese person I've ever met uses some very white-sounding nickname. Do Americans who get nowag'd have to say things like "my name is Daniel but you can call me Ching?"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3760681&forum_id=2Elisa#34415621)



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Date: October 13th, 2017 11:36 AM
Author: Cheese-eating well-lubricated den



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Date: December 4th, 2019 2:12 PM
Author: concupiscible garnet stain plaza

Jews always do this

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Date: December 4th, 2019 4:12 PM
Author: duck-like cerebral circlehead

Yup they all take Chinese names. The surname will usually be something that sounds like the first syllable of their last name. For example, if a guy's name is Zack Wheeler, they'd pick something like "Wei Zhake" as his Chinese name.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3760681&forum_id=2Elisa#39215006)



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Date: December 4th, 2019 4:15 PM
Author: aphrodisiac citrine becky crackhouse

that's weird and fraudulent

they should take a chinese first name at most to show desire to integrate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3760681&forum_id=2Elisa#39215018)



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Date: December 4th, 2019 4:16 PM
Author: Dashing Confused Elastic Band Home

i thought we had an issue with turdskins who come here and DON'T anglicize their names

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3760681&forum_id=2Elisa#39215024)



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Date: December 5th, 2019 10:31 AM
Author: Primrose heady base

I have no issues with anybody

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Date: December 5th, 2019 10:32 AM
Author: Cracking Drunken Tanning Salon Electric Furnace



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Date: December 15th, 2025 5:27 PM
Author: Big public bath coffee pot



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Date: December 4th, 2019 4:19 PM
Author: twinkling dead parlor son of senegal

yeah generally everyone who learns chinese chooses/is given a chinese name for fun. random sexpats in china? not really

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Date: December 5th, 2019 10:32 AM
Author: startling contagious church building

Not really. Even if they do, everyone calls them by their American name.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3760681&forum_id=2Elisa#39218158)



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Date: December 15th, 2025 5:52 PM
Author: Electric dilemma

The more common Western names have Chinese transliterations. "Samuel" is 大山, for example.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3760681&forum_id=2Elisa#49512063)