Thank you! Thank You! Amy! At my last job(the same where I had to listen to endless 'Patriot Radio') I had coworkers from Somalia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Togo, Kenya, as well as several African-Carribean/Latin American coworkers from Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, etc.
If you want to know where someone is from, ask! Thanks, David Strand Loring Park (Sister-in-law from Sierra Leone-West Africa) --- Amy Bergquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the hopes of encouraging more politeness and > respect, I would like > to caution people in Minneapolis from assuming that > someone who has > dark skin and speaks with a non-American accent in > our city is Somali. > In Minneapolis we have quite a few immigrants from > Ethiopia, and many > from West Africa as well. Many of the immigrants > themselves cannot > tell whether a person is Somali until they hear the > person speaking > their native language. Just as it is rude to park in > the middle of the > street and block traffic, it is also rude to make > assumptions about a > person's national origin. Most of my immigrant > students are non-Somali > East Africans, and they find it somewhat offensive > when many people > assume that they are Somali. > > -Amy Bergquist > Standish 9-8 > > > _______________________________________ > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic > Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: > http://e-democracy.org/mpls __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
