Tag Archives: Discrimination

food_processors Racism without racists

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

In the past couple of years, I have been a passenger in Sydney taxis driven, inter alia, by an agricultural engineer from India, a civil engineer from Somalia, a surgeon from Vietnam, an MBA graduate from Pakistan, an architect from … Continue reading →

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English-Only at Bon Secours English-Only at Bon Secours

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

From what I read, there is a nursing shortage in the Global North. From North America to Japan and from Europe to the Gulf countries, rich societies suffer from a “care deficit,” which they fill by importing – mostly female … Continue reading →

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Shibboleth: Kyrgyz or Uzbek?

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

In his recent post “Accent and History,” Khan asked whether it’s possible to escape the prison of our accent and our language. Looking at the civil war and humanitarian disaster that is currently raging in and around the city of … Continue reading →

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Accent and history

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Muhammad Ali Khan

This is the story of a young Pakistani man, let’s call him Reza. Reza spent his early years in what was then East-Pakistan and what is today a different country, Bangladesh. Reza’s family were Muslims from Bihar, who at the … Continue reading →

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Linguistic discrimination at work

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

Deborah Cameron noted in 1995 that “linguistic bigotry is among the last publicly expressible prejudices left to members of the Western intelligentsia.” In the same vein, one could point out that linguistic discrimination is among the last legal forms of … Continue reading →

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