Comment by t-writescode
17 days ago
I see the ".fr" in your profile; but, in the United States, that activity would almost certainly be a conversation with HR.
If you really, really wanted help with a translation project and you didn't want to pay, professional translators (which you should do since translation-by-meaning requires fluency or beyond in both languages), then there are more polite ways of asking this information than cold-calling every person with a "regional" sounding name and saying "hey, you know [presumed mother tongue]?"
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... to be clear, you're saying that banning prejudicial activities at companies is a reflection of how "entitled" the US has grown to be?
You understand why they're banned, right? We have a very recent and loud history about why we ban discrimination like that - or at least did.
I don't really care about your reasons, to be honest.
You are losing competitiveness, we, on the other side of the world, are gaining.
As a result, you will be buying our goods, not the other way round, and that is the only thing I truly care about.
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Are you suggesting France is specifically gaining competitiveness through applied racism?
Sorry, I'd rather be uncompetitive than stoop to that
There's nothing racist about what he said. It's not racist, or even particularly impolite, to nicely ask someone "hey, I noticed you have x name, are you from $country by any chance?"