Whilst I'm not against using an english name if that's something you like, noone should be forced into adopting another name just to make it easier for the other person because they can't be bothered to pronounce your name correctly. I'm a Vietnamese and adopted an english name when I came to my third and last high school in Australia, because I really liked that name and because every Viet kid around me seem to have an english name, on top of getting teased about it, being called Hong Kong is not fun. I dropped it once I started uni as I no longer felt self-conscious about my name. Several years later I went on a one year work assignment to China, and many of the Chinese employees in our company was forced to adopt an english name even though they had never used one, because the expats can't pronounce their names properly or bothered remember it. One of them actually expressed her unhappiness with being forced to use an english name when she was proud of her name, that it was what she identified with, not some random english name. Later on I was told by a Chinese expat that the employees referred to each other by their Chinese name and not the english name, and only use it when they converse with expats. This experience left a really bad taste for me as I felt the company and the expats were very insensitive. Globalization means you work with people from different backgrounds and different names, and not that everyone becomes a westerner. Now I see more people with their original name rather than english name, so I think people's mentality have changed a bit, that they feel more confident when conversing with people overseas and doesn't feel the need to hide their identities.
Interesting vid ... even ‘Teresa’ was in there, which surprised me! Great editing as usual Oscar, snappy and engaging - thanks for sharing 👍🏼🤗🐶
Whilst I'm not against using an english name if that's something you like, noone should be forced into adopting another name just to make it easier for the other person because they can't be bothered to pronounce your name correctly.
I'm a Vietnamese and adopted an english name when I came to my third and last high school in Australia, because I really liked that name and because every Viet kid around me seem to have an english name, on top of getting teased about it, being called Hong Kong is not fun. I dropped it once I started uni as I no longer felt self-conscious about my name.
Several years later I went on a one year work assignment to China, and many of the Chinese employees in our company was forced to adopt an english name even though they had never used one, because the expats can't pronounce their names properly or bothered remember it. One of them actually expressed her unhappiness with being forced to use an english name when she was proud of her name, that it was what she identified with, not some random english name. Later on I was told by a Chinese expat that the employees referred to each other by their Chinese name and not the english name, and only use it when they converse with expats.
This experience left a really bad taste for me as I felt the company and the expats were very insensitive. Globalization means you work with people from different backgrounds and different names, and not that everyone becomes a westerner. Now I see more people with their original name rather than english name, so I think people's mentality have changed a bit, that they feel more confident when conversing with people overseas and doesn't feel the need to hide their identities.
I had a Chinese client whose name is Ulrica, she said the meaning is "the leader of the wolves" 🤣😂
Now that’s epic 👑🐺
So interesting!!
1:16 If that song was Indian (hindi, panjabi) so cindy means "thief" 😅😅😅 maybe she doesn't know
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Kenny!!!
Amir
Hi remember me?