Giving yourself a "local name"

[Salty Ears]

I have a Russified Old Norse name, it would be strange in Norway to introduce myself as Gudleifr

[Gnomepilled]

My name is very pan-European and is pronounced the same in the most European languages, so I don't care about such "problem".

Dick is not a pan-European name.

[Flamingo]

First time hearing this. No, absolutely not. Furthermore, I have a very European name. How should I call myself when going to China? Feng Shui or what?

[Flamingo]

I've never heard of anyone doing this, other than some of my Chinese friends at uni, who adopt English nicknames for pronouncability's sake.

Come to think of it, I know very few Chinese international students who use their given name in the classroom. I did have a Mongolian employee, though, who said "I'm not going to work until you pronounce my name correctly" when I was taking role call. His name had 13 letters and was mostly consonants. Kinda based when you think about it. I still think about him years later. I've never met someone with such chaotically powerful masculine energy.

I honestly think it's weird and pandering to introduce yourself with a local variant of your name. It may make sense for long-term international stays, though.

This is maybe an American thing. No Chinese or East Asian at my university seems to use a Western name.

[noricum]

I only did that years ago in Israel when I literally translated my first name "Christian" as "Notzri", just for fun.