I think that in a rational society everyone should feel free to choose their name, and doing so should be a normal and expected rite of passage.
It makes way more sense to choose the sound people make when they refer to you, than having your parents choose it for you before you’re even a person yet.
Asian people
trans people: having inspired English names
Partner knew two Chinese dudes in college who roomed together and chose the names Action and Lancelot. Hard to beat that probably.
I’m imagining a Chinese cartoon about an American guy named Action Lancelot who rides a motorcycle and eats nothing but cheeseburgers.
Action Lancelot and the Adventures of Burgerlandia
NES game Clash at Demonhead has the main character’s name as “BANG”
I mean they had some terrible ones as well. The Korean woman who first explained it to me had chosen “Elizabeth” after the fucking Queen, so we all just used her Korean name instead.