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'My name is Thinh': How the practice of anglicizing names on P.E.I. may be changing
Kevin Yarr
© Submitted by Thinh Nguyen
At first, says Thinh Nguyen, he did not think much about sometimes being called Andy.
For part of his time in Canada, Holland College student Thinh Nguyen was known as Andy.
Nguyen recently wrote an opinion piece in the Charlottetown Guardian newspaperabout reclaiming his original Vietnamese name. CBC's
Island Morning invited him and two other immigrants to discuss what it means to anglicize your name when you come to Canada.
For Nguyen, that anglicization came before he even left Vietnam. He was in Grade 6 when an English teacher from outside the country came into the classroom and asked everyone in the class to choose an English name so he could easily pronounce them.

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