i agree with you i am a chinese contributor to this site and i speak chinese vernaculars and european languages and through some of the unreasonable mandarinization imposed here i feel how repressed non native mandarin speakers are by those apparently native speakers traditionally foreign names are transliterated into chinese ideographs by whichever vernacular group that first settled there in usa and europe it is mostly by the cantonese then subsequently the minnan taiwanese and recently the people for fuzhou wenzhou etc as such they will use han ideographs to represent the sounds they transliterate from the foreign language like english there is no standardised version until the northerners came into power and imposed mandarin on all the other chinese groups for the noble mission of reuniting the motherland against foreign invaders through bettering communication i think the best way to transliterate and reflect the diversity of chinese culture is to put the actual foreign name first i e the original followed by the oldest transliteration in chronology and finally the mandarin version that will make it easy for everyone cos then the eyes will zoom right to the end for the contemporary mandarin pronunciation and zoom right to the first line for the original and if readers have time they can trace the colorful history of transliteration and migration by reading the chronology of changes thank you for being so interested in chinese culture we need more friends like you have a nice day