Another T R O B Sacrifice?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47022374

[retrocop]

It's not as if these students are just visiting on holiday and will get by not

using the language of the country they are in. They have come to an English speaking University for a long course of study and I believe it is the hight of rudeness if you intend to study and eventually work in a host country and not speak the native language in a study/work environment.
The Professor, in her e-mail, said no problem speaking Chinese off campus.
If the Chinese students have poor EnglishLanguage skills then they won't improve them by speaking their own language at every opportunity. I support the Professor's stance. More loss to Dukes.

[dannyk13]

The only ones who could be said to have been racist were the two who complained to the professor.The wrong person has been castigated.

[Calicogirl]

Obviously in class people need to talk the language of the country they are in, but between lessons and downtime within the building I think it is slightly presumptuous to assume that people ought to speak only in English, however it does seem to have been blown somewhat out of proportion.

[spathiphyllum]

University professor removed for being an arrogant and potentially threatening students? "unintended consequences"

Well.. saying they're unintended before they happen surely makes them intended?

Mental situation.

[Mamyalynne]

I agree with Danny here, it's the two as yet unnamed faculty members and their thinly veiled threats who have sparked this off.

[spathiphyllum]

"I shared with them headshots of the first- and second-year cohorts taken during orientation. Both facility members picked out small group of first-year students"

Well that is some BS aint it lol.

[cassa333]

Careful careful... Lindsay Shepherd comes to mind.

[Peter Pedant]

Pretty standard in language skools
for the reason stated
they are in X here to learn the language of X

Don Quixote does this in Thpain - the staff only speak Spanith from day 1

[Peter Pedant]

// I believe it is the hight of rudeness if you intend to study and eventually work in a host country and not speak the native language in a study/work environment.//

erm very fine principles

but in the Police language diversity is encouraged innit ?
[ civil translators are not above telling the suspects what to say]