Chinese people take English names.  Do Americans take Chinese names?  Japan makes foreigners keep their names in katakana.  That's too bad.  [&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/4380556.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp">Link</a>&nbsp;]

--In reference to <a href="archive/200210.html#p17">my recent entry</a>:  I found a working link to the <a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2002/02/03/international1350EST0476.DTL&nl=fix">Korean pop culture article</a> by the Associated Press.  Just for posterity's sake, I saved <a href="vault/articles/AP_KoreaPopCulture.html">a copy of my own</a>.