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Linguistic discrimination - Coggle Diagram
Linguistic discrimination
People affected
people of color
-first generation students
-immigrants
-foreign people in general
The people who are mainly affected tend to be children in classrooms.While being bilingual is great for the brain and helps cognitive funtions
This can also affect people who have accents. So the discrimination has a large range of situations that can happen and of people that it happens to.
Can this be flipped and count towards discrimination towards people who can speak only one language? Recently in a tik tok that I happened to stumble on a woman applied at a job and didn’t get the job because she wasn't able to speak Spanish. She was upset and blamed the girl who did get the job. She goes on about it being difficult to find work in with only knowing English so could it be reversed or should it only apply to languages that aren’t English ?
Something else to ask would be if the main crowd of people spoke Spanish and a place hired only Hispanic or spanish speaking workers would that be discrimination against only english speaking people?
What does this discrimination do?
forced assimilation
can’t speak their other language freely
-lose tough with their culture
-makes it ok for people to give up their own heritage for survival
makes minorities have to pile more struggles
Violence goes up when people are confronted with something they aren’t familiar with. However that does not excuse violence and cases like these should have serous consequences although many cases handled here in the U.S tend to have unjust conclusions.
it’s important to talk about this specific form of discrimination because its an important factor in our lives. Their isn’t a day we don’t talk and communicate with others. So making it safe for anyone to communicate however they want should be the key.
What can be done?
-nurture peoples primary language as well as their english
-acknowledge the history and the present events happening
-Informing people and students
-having correct training for people
Become informed many immigrants are scared to stand up in fear of being deported or just labeled as a sterotype and either fired or embarrassed. However there are laws that help them to be safe in work place environments
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The main purpose is to avoid making people feel like thye arent as important or worthy of education or jobs
Where can this happen ?
In many places actually like for example walking down the street , ordering food at a restaurant , working ,at school and so many other places.
Many work places have laws and rules about linguistic discrimination. People are protected to receive jobs even if their English is not the most fluent.
https://legalaidatwork.org/factsheet/language-discrimination/
Cognitive strengths to being bilingual
The brain works in both languages many bilingual people process words in both languages before they respond. Like files they go through all the different responses in both languages.
Better at conflict management. Reading the word yelllow in the color read and being able to give the correct answer instead of answering red.
So many more benefits to being bilingual
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3583091/