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I would guess it has more to do with a worry of not being able to pronounce the name correctly or to properly understand the person more than it does with racism. I know I often have difficulty understanding some foreign folks. And I am forever asking them to repeat themselves. Guess I'm racist.
If an HR rejected an applicant just because s/he is not sure how to pronounce the name, should s/he be fired?
There is the research. They make a LARGE amount of assumptions and do not account for all the variables.
Garbage in... Garbage out.
This is a manufactured activist research paper.
Can't be taking the thought process to the next level and include variables and stuff. That would make it more meaningful and ruin it for all the knee jerk demonizers.
I would guess it has more to do with a worry of not being able to pronounce the name correctly or to properly understand the person more than it does with racism. I know I often have difficulty understanding some foreign folks. And I am forever asking them to repeat themselves. Guess I'm racist.
I'd be curious to know if there was any correlation between the types of jobs being offered.
For example, If you're hiring people to communicate with customers and have had a number of applicants with poor English skills I could see how they might rule people out based upon ethnicity (not saying it's right)....but in that case it's not racism driving the decision. If it's for a job like a fork lift operator then I can't see anything a name could imply that would likely impact job performance.
Of course I don't doubt that there are absolutely racists out there imputing their biases into the processes but it would be interested to see how robust the study was and any insights beyond a single percentage might be gained.
I agree. Those darn black managers and their black privilege
Weird that you guys are jumping on that train considering that those are two groups that I've seen have some of the worst racial attitudes about each other in recent years.
Not sure what point is being lost there, I really hope you guys aren't pushing the "only white people can be racist" meme I've heard many times over the years.
It's racist to be concerned that a foreign name could be mispronounced? Wow. I must be the only person on the planet who didn't know that.
It is racist if the fear of mispronouncing someone's name prevents you from giving them a chance.
When I was picking through resumes looking for candidates to interview last year, I tried particularly hard not to discriminate based on their names. And let me tell you, there were names that looked like it came from Mars.
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