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I'm having a hard time reconciling a complaint about a lack of diversity with the notion that the problem is rooted in certain members of a team speaking langua
by ibejoeb 4y ago
I'm having a hard time reconciling a complaint about a lack of diversity with the notion that the problem is rooted in certain members of a team speaking languages other than English. Is the only allowable monoculture the Anglo one?
update: to the person asking how it is helpful to have team members speaking different languages: I don't know. It's a different question. We started with the premise that the team should be multiethnic, and the way it shakes out is that that often means being multilingual. We can ask that question, but it changes the whole thing. That's the problem with these topics.
- zzzzzzzza 4y agoif 10 team members can speak english and 4 members french and english, how is it helpful for the company for that clique of 4 to converse only in french unless forced otherwise?
- jhugo 4y agoIt can be, if it helps them to have discussions at a level of detail or clarity that would not be possible for them in English. Of course it's important that they don't make decisions in this vacuum and that where necessary translation is done for the others. I've worked in many multilingual teams and I doubt that enforcing 100% a single language to the point that you forbid even brief clarifying "aside" discussions in another language would improve overall results.
- Ekaros 4y agoWhy don't these team members take an effort to learn language of the team? Shouldn't be too hard to do in couple of years.