US professor put on leave after telling Asian-American student to ‘Anglicise’ her name

A college professor in Oakland, California, has been placed on administrative leave after asking an Asian student to “Anglicise” her name, saying the pronunciation “sounds like an insult”.Matthew Hubbard was unwilling to call student Phuc Bui Diem Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American freshman, by her given name, claiming that it too closely resembled a profanity in English.Growing up, Nguyen had gone by the nickname “May”. But as a freshman at Laney College, she was excited to use her birth name,…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3090171/us-professor-put-leave-after-telling-asian-american