Saturday, March 5, 2011

Alaysia Assignment 10 (Yo no comprendo.)

I thought the story about the latino women working at sephora in NYC was interesting: How they were banned from speaking spanish amongst themselves. If I was an actual work who was fluent in spanish, I would be offended if I was told that I couldn't speak my native language. But if I was a worker who didn't understand spanish at all or a customer who didn't understand spanish at all (which by the way I am), I would feel threatened. And I feel the same way sometimes when I go to get my nails done. Not only do I not understand you, but you can be degrading me and mocking me in front of those who do understand.
These women who were told to not speak spanish shouldn't be offended at all. The fact that they can speak more than one language is a great thing. I think they forget to think that they are in a work place, and if the manager says to not speak it, it should be done.

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