Will continue for a fourth week. in recent years a number of celebrities have reclaimed their birth names after years of anglicising them. it s an issue many people from ethnic minority backgrounds are faced with whilst growing up or when looking forjobs. reporter noor nanji has been to meet one lady who s taking back her name. ifelt like i had to fit in like i needed to keep up with the joke and keep up with people, like, calling me by the wrong name. changing your name to fit in? i know a bit about that. our reporter nina nanji. nina nanji. nina nanji, bbc news. that s actually not my name, though. my real name is noor, but at work i chose to go by nina because so many people were getting it wrong and that got me wondering whether other people have done similar things. i m off to meet chinemelum, who s been abbreviating her name for most of her life. so when i was in year three, ijoined a new school
Nina nanji, bbc news. that s actually not my name, though. my real name is noor, but at work i chose to go by nina because so many people were getting it wrong and that got me wondering whether other people have done similar things. i m off to meet chinemelum, who s been abbreviating her name for most of her life. so when i was in year three, ijoined a new school and they called me up to the front and they re like, what s your name? and i said, chinemelum, and i was really standing there proudly. and the teacher was like, what was that? i said, chinemelum. and she was like, to the whole school, if you don t know how to pronounce that, just call her chicken lemon. and from that day, literally everybody was calling me chicken lemon. i just felt a bit small, like nobody was taking me seriously. like, i needed to keep up with the joke and keep up with people, like, calling me by the wrong namejust so, like, my friends wouldn t leave me, basically. after that, she decided to g