Man named Phuc Dat Bich wants Facebook to stop banning his account

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A 23-year-old Vietnamese-Australian man is fed up with Facebook, after the social media site has continued to ban his account for being “false and misleading.”

The problem? His name is Phuc Dat Bich.

It’s actually a very common name in Vietnam and is pronounced “Phoop Dook Bic,” but that doesn’t mean English-speakers don’t find it hilarious, or in Facebook’s case, offensive.

“I find it highly irritating the fact that nobody seems to believe me when I say that my full legal name is how you see it,” he says in a now-viral Facebook rant. “I’ve been accused of using a false and misleading name of which I find very offensive. Is it because I’m Asian? Is it? Having my fb shut down multiple times and forced to change my name to my “real” name, so just to put it out there. My name.”

The post was actually written months ago but exploded across social media recently, even becoming a nationally trending Twitter topic in the United States, likely because of the name debate raging across Facebook for people and companies whose names are “Isis.” Facebook has been suspended accounts with the name after mistakenly believing that it refers to the jihadist group ISIS.

Below is a guide on how to properly say the name.