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Going back to the topic of names, I became Julie in elementary school because some well-meaning person (not sure who) thought no American would be able to say Yuri. I did not reclaim Yuri until I went to college. Yuri sounds Russian to me. I did not choose my name; my parents did
People I've known since my childhood still call me Julie and I don't see it as racist. What's in a name?
One time, a long time ago, a Japanese man looked toward me with big hope when he thought he was meeting a Julie. He was so disappointed to see a Japanese-looking person. What kind of pathetic discrimination (self-hate) is this?! 
In college I met other students from various places, who said they were given English names like Michael.
If you study the history of racism and colonialism, forcing people to use certain names is a common method of subjugation. A name defines your relationship to the speaker and the society that you are part of.
It can also happen within a society and be used as a tool to forcibly define hierarchy, such as using "chan," so the speaker can place him/herself at a higher status than the person being addressed, to whose name "chan" is getting added.
