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Originally Posted by GirlySports
It starts out very small but builds up. Here's an example. You and I work at the same company. Another co-worker and I keep speaking Korean in the workplace and you deem it inappropriate and impolite (not racial). You complain to us but we don't care, we're bitches. You complain to HR and they say, well that's racist you can't say that. Well, can't you have an-English only policy at work, English isn't a race. No that's discriminatory and racist.
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I don't think it's inappropriate if it is a personal conversation, but if it has to do with work, then it is. If someone is so insecure that they think people speaking in a language they don't understand is some kind of threat to them, that is their own problem. Having said that, I work for a firm that has multiple Filipino and Spanish speaking people, and they never speak their native languages at work. Only once that I recall, was when one of the Filipino guys called his mom on the phone. Not that he had to, but he told me that he was going to ahead of time in case I was wondering, which was a nice gesture. That, and the time they were teaching me swear words (I will never think of a Poke Bar the same again).
Now I have encountered 2 situations, one in Vancouver and one in Toronto, where there were firms hiring people that speak a foreign language. Both firms do business in Canada exclusively, do their interviews in English, write their reports in English, deal with government agencies in English, yet they only hired people that spoke Korean or Arabic as well. I am not sure if this is legal, but it seemed like a way to ethnically discriminate.