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How westerner call Chinese is appropriate behavior in China. In my country, people are expected to never praise themselves, if you do that, it seems as if you are the person who doesn't have self-respect and lost dignity even like a joker. You are supposed to wait someone gives your compliment. This behavior could keep your modesty and everyone believes it's a virtue. Here, people always have two or three characters names and one character with one syllable, so when you have a meeting, make sure you always call them two syllables, if some's name with three syllable then you call the last two. Or, you just call them surname plus their job title, like Doctor Lee. Never do that like American's movies shows, call someone who's Chinese with one syllable like "Lee"," Sun" so on, it's a little weird and seems like don't respect others.

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How Westerners call address a Chinese person in China.

In my country, people are expected to never praise (I really hate this kind of negative - how about 'to avoid self-praise') themselves. If you praise yourself do that, it seems as if you are the person who doesn't have no self-respect and lost no dignity even behave like a joker. You are supposed to wait until someone gives you a compliment. This behaving this way lets you appear could keep your modest and everyone believes it's that is a virtue.


Here, people always have two or three character names and one character with one syllable (are you talking xingming? how about 诸葛亮?) , so when you have a meeting, make sure you always call them two syllables, if some's name with three syllable then you call the last two (this is very confusing! does liang 亮 count as one or two by your measure?Better to stick to characters and forget syllables). Or, you just call them surname plus their job title, like Doctor Lee. Never do that like as they do in American movies shows, and call someone who's Chinese with one syllable like "Lee"," Sun" so on, it's a little weird and seems like don't respect others.

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Sometimes people omit the titles because they can create walls for some people and decrease the likelihood of communication. Some people would label this as a lame excuse, but I have seen the phenomenon in action.

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