Part of embracing diversity is accepting that it is hard, sometimes impossible, for other people to pronounce names that are uncommon in their native tongue Wh

Part of embracing diversity is accepting that it is hard, sometimes impossible, for other people to pronounce names that are uncommon in their native tongue When I lived in China, nobody could pronounce my name anywhere close to correctly and I didn’t care. I didn’t do much better with theirs despite putting daily effort into my Mandarin pronunciation. They mostly ended up simply adopting common English names when working with their American colleagues. This was a wise approach. I am reminded of the tourist who comes back from Europe talking about “ParEE”, having no idea how bad their pronunciation really is. When speaking English we use English place names. We say “Paris”, or “China” because it is hard or impossible to pronounce these place names the same way natives of those places do. The key is to be respectful and try to make others comfortable, while expecting the same from others.