Girl gets arrested for not understanding? WTH

[Beauty Mark]

If the girl was actually saying racist things, she should be punished. I don't know about arrested, but a punishment should happen.

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Omg, that reminds me of what happened in my AP US History class years back. The teacher was talking about blacks who lived in North Africa, and their involvment in WWII, and she was so afraid to use the term "black" that she actually referred to them as "African Americans." Yes, "African Americans" to described black people living in NORTH AFRICA.

I use the term black, only because I find people become ridiculously offended when you use African-American and they're from elsewhere.

 

[Raerae]

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Originally Posted by GalleyGirl if they are second generation and perfectly fluent in English and just choose to speak Urdu in class, then that is incredibly rude and self-isolating IMO)

This is what I can't stand... Drives me absoluteley nuts when people do this. Two of the hispanic girls who worked in my office used to do this (one doesn't work here anymore). If I know you can speak PERFECT english, speak perfect english 99% of the time, and then 1% of the time speak fluent spanish with the person next to you, what do you think I'm going to assume? That your talking about me. And whats worse, your doing it right in front of my face, and using Spanish specifically for the reason that I can't understand it.

It's RUDE. It's one thing to be speaking in spanish when your alone. It's another to do it when people who are not fluent in your 2nd language specifically for the purpose of having a private conversation. If you need to be private about it in front of peolpe you know, maybe you SHOULDN'T be talking about it at all? Or at least have the common decency to not do it right in front of them.

 

[quandolak]

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[GalleyGirl]

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Originally Posted by quandolak And no its not incredibly rude to talk to the newly arrived pakistani students in urdu to explain to them and help them in the class.

If they are newly arrived and have trouble with English, then of course its not rude to give them help in Urdu. If they were fluent English speakers on the other hand, I think it would be rude beyond a reasonable doubt for them to speak in Urdu in class among their non-Urdu speaking classmates. Its saying, "We are choosing to exclude you and isolate ourselves by communicating in a language you can't understand."