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Racism?
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http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=1068904
Sorry if I misunderstood the article but since when was saying you can't understand a language racist?
Sorry if I misunderstood the article but since when was saying you can't understand a language racist?
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I had this at Uni where me and a friend were put with 3 asian lads who did nothing but skive, miss deadlines and make offensive comments about whites. We reported it and they failed
Hmm, why did she ask to be removed, rather than ask then to speak in a language which she understood - which I am sure they could have done. They were certainly shoing bad manners but her reaction is not better.
I think that there is more to this than is shown in that small article.
It's been that way for a while I think?
If you thin kotherwise then perhaps you can take me to a link because it was never an issue when I was a school gov.
I certainly don't believe it and just because someone said it was so, doesn't mean that it was.
People will always use example like that to undermine what they see as "political correctness gone maaaaaaaaad", yet seldom is there any evidence...
Stupidity prevails.
Of course part of the problem might be that the other kids don't speak English well. And that's a real problem in many schools.
By a side note, this is hardly uncommon, i attended a school where a small group of Asian students (not just middle eastern but far eastern included) would form cliques and only "speak" in their home countries language. Fair enough...except they didnt know that language and could only speak 10 words in total between all of them. One of them i was mates with told me it was only done to piss off other people. I never found out why they bothered but meh, im passed shcool now.
They haven't.
Some teacher may well have got the wrong end of the stick. The term blackboard was not banned.
*emphasis mine.
There is nothing in the article which suggests that they refused to speak English.
What new name, you still haven't provided a link. Just because "a mate of a mate" once told their sister who told you, doesn't make it true. You cannot ban a word, for a start, but even if it was suggested that people might want to consider the racial undertones then I really don't think that "blackboard" would be the first place to look.
Ditto, Baa Baa Black Sheep.
I'm only 22, but i dont remember that from my school days. Sure we used slang, but even the teachers at my school new it all too.
Show me.