Maggie Crescendo

I have an alt that the user name is Japanese but i am not Japanese in RL. And i use only English in SL. I dont know if it's just my feeling. I feel that i get only a few IMs or none at all when i use the alt. I never really counted to compare. That's why i bring the question here. In RL some countries were enemies at war. And i know some people still have resentment at the past war enemies. My question is, how do you feel when you see avatars in-world with such names, would you say Hi to them and make friends?