
Language Bias: The Last Back Door of Discrimination in America?
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Hawaiians, I'm Aser, This Is Now More Than 20 Years Old
There was an episode in hawaii. where a filippino who had been living in the united states for pretty much all his life, and wanted to get more work as a retired person. The people who were interviewing him, we're, aa, i thinkalmost all of them were japanese, a phnicity. And they turned him down for the job. They said, because people wouldn't understand him. So he sued. It's so mine boggling that they went into court and they had one set of experts saying, well, his english, his native it's fluent, you know. And then on the other side, they had a speech pathologists
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