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Ah yeah, the allowed kind of racism. My favourite.

• kaashif 3y ago
  I don't think requiring everyone speak the same language is racism, necessarily. If it's "speak English to include everyone in work conversation" then it's fine. If it's "don't speak Hungarian on the phone to your parents because fuck you" then no, that's bad. I have worked in environments where teammates speak in their native language (spoken by a small minority of people at the company) and it has an exclusionary effect. Once a team (perhaps unintentionally) begins to favour those with the right native language, and a critical mass of speakers is reached, it can sometimes result in mono lingual, mono cultural teams who find it hard to hire or retain other people. It really depends on the specific criticism and how it was phrased.