Actor Zoë Saldaña is calling out what she describes as an act of government “entitlement” after she claimed U.S. officials left the accents from her surname on her birth certificate.

Saldaña, born in Passaic, New Jersey, has Dominican and Puerto Rican heritage. Her surname includes a tilde, changing the “n” to a “ny” sound. However, for years, she didn’t correct those who misspelled or mispronounced it.

“I think that back in the day it was an entitlement of ‘Well, this is America, this is English, that doesn’t exist, so we’re not gonna put it in,'” she said during an appearance on the “Table Manners” podcast. “Versus now – there’s this mindfulness of ‘how do you want to be called? What is your name?’ And that I truly appreciate.

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