[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by yukikosan

Are Japaneses that "closed minded" to find it "not normal" that a foreigner have a japanese name ?

The answer is, sort of yes. Although it's not an evil kind of nationalism. It's just part of the culture. Trust me: I'm on your site of this debate. When I lived in Japan, I took a Japanese name (my actual name sounds like "frog" in Japanese, and my real name fortunately translates literally into a very common Japanese surname (and a not-so-common given name)) and my friends didn't seem to care (of course, they were my friends, so they wouldn't care!). But others do care very deeply, and they think it is weird.

Really I think it's more that people don't like the objectification of Japanese. And, to a certain extent, not speaking Japanese yet asking how to write your name in kanji is objectification of the language. Sociologists will tell you it is dehumanizing toward Japanese people to treat their language like a toy or a fashion to play around with. While you may not have intended to come off this way, we get so many of that type of request here that it's second nature to assume the worst.

But your reaction to the earlier postings is equally poor. You very much come across like a child, with posts rife with misspellings and and invective. Obviously some level of sloppiness is understood and permitted here and elsewhere on the net. But you're just displaying a callous carelessness. It does bother people, believe it or not.

In north America and Europe I don't think people care!!
Hey!! My son's name is Klaus!!!! What a shame and a stupid thing, I'm not even German!!!

To be fair, when you write "Klaus" in English and German, it's written exactly the same.

Imagine adopting the name "Allah" and expecting Arabic-speaking Muslims to treat you with respect when they find out you've taken that name because "it sounds cool, and I don't know what it means."

why I wanna have my name in kanji is a lot as a RESPECT toward the Japanese people

I've heard this a lot, but without a cultural understanding of Japan, how can it be labeled "respect"?

Can you explain to me why taking a name that means nothing to you is a sign of respect? My name is Gaelic, but I sure don't think my parents were honoring their Irish ancestors by naming me as such!

I think the less I can do is to use it the good way japaneses do : in kanji .

We're telling you that it is completely normal and the regular way of doing things not to use kanji since you are not a Japanese citizen. Like it or not (I don't, particularly), that's the way things are.