Originally Posted by
Rjk
I don't think all Asian people who adopt a "western" name do so for easier cross-cultural interactions, even if that's how it started.
My wife and her friends will mostly call each other by their "western" nicknames, and keep their full Chinese name for official documents etc.
She even calls her son by his western name, unless he's really being told off, in which case the full name will come out.