I know... that is the problem with a sizable Chinese population
in South East Asia. It might be that the majority of Chinese here
still retain the colonial mentality, and thinks very highly of
everything Western while degrading our own Chinese roots...
You see people frowning on all things Chinese, including Chinese
names, Chinese ancestral practices, Chinese wah yang operas,
language, TCM, etc etc. Heck, even the term "cheena" is invented to
reflect this kind of negative sentiments. The sad thing is that you
will not find any other races that actually feel proud to be
alienating their own mother-culture. You certainly cannot find any
"kay ang mohs" in Malays, Japanese, Indians etc.
Culture and religion are inseparable. There is obviously also a
cross-over in religious implications. The exodus of joss-stick
Taoists/ Buddhists to embrace Christianity might be another
manifestation of this "kay ang moh" mentality, but that is another
matter.
Some Chinese I know not only adopted Anglo-saxon names, but also
changed the spelling of their surname to appear "ang moh"-ish. Eg,
spelling surname "Lowe" instead of "Loh" etc. In one particularly
jarring incident, my (Chinese) colleague commented to me that "Oh,
Chinese characters are sooooo squarish and soooo cute!" 
If I hadn't know better, I would have thought
that she is a foreigner seeing Chinese hanzi for the first time,
but the fact is that she is a home-grown and home-educated Chinese
Singaporean!
It is a sad state of affair to be sure.
Note that I don't mean to 'bash' those whose command of the Chinese
language is poor, I am certainly not proclaiming that the Chinese
culture is superior to all others. I am just lamenting that in
Singapore, you cannot even proclaim your "Chineseness" without
being branded a Chauvanist by the "kay ang mohs".
