Re: [luv-talk] How not to deal with human resources

Jason White wrote:

Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:

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I completely forgot to mention that she is Chinese as well.

I would expect Chinese language competence to be considered favourably in a large and increasing range of organizations nowadays, for obvious social and economic reasons.

Just because she's ethnic Han or whatever doesn't mean she can speak fluent Mandarin or Cantonese. I bet there are a lot of Australians descended from Irish and Scottish immigrants who can't speak Gaelic. My gramma is from Burma and I sure as shit can't speak Burmese.