On the one hand, I find it difficult to believe that she couldn’t get a first interview “because of her last name”, but on the other hand, immigrants to this country from central and southern Europe for most of the past century have also changed their names in order to “fit in” better. My own grandfather did, in fact. But in all of the cases I’m aware of this was done as a choice by the person doing it. Maybe we could say “tut tut, it shouldn’t be necessary”—but it’s still a free choice. And I know a lot of people who come from families whose names never did change from “foreign” forms. It’s a free country; people can change their names or not, as they choose. It’s too bad that there still is some racism and discrimination in this country (I presume that you’re talking about the USA, as I am), and too bad that people feel the need sometimes to modify their names and parts of their culture in order to fit in. But it’s an imperfect world, after all. And I notice that she’s not fleeing to Mexico or Asia to try to fit in there better.