My gf is currently telling me that at university, they choose an English name and stick with it. Not just because we FT's are gigantic twits who can't remember something as simple as 320 different Chinese names, but because they know they will probably use it after graduation. She used the name Nancy at Uni, still uses it at her work, a large Japanese electronics company. When asked why, she replied in her my-God-it-is-good-you-are-pretty-because-you-are-really-vapid tone "Everyone needs an English name. Japenese, Korean, Thai, all you white foreign devils are too dull to remember simple Chinese names..it makes my job easier"...