I want to go back and answer a question from earlier in this thread (and from years ago apparently) about why Asians choose Western names they can't pronounce.
This is a vestige of colonial era, British ruled, Hong Kong where it was fashionable to give yourself an Anglophone name. Most professionals, entertainers, and people of younger generations and middle-class to higher wealth would have an English name and this is often what you would go by with your friends.
You won't really find this to be the case anymore as the overwhelming majority of Asian immigrants are from mainland China where this custom never existed and they often never take English names.
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