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by peteretep
2618 days ago
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> The 7/11 clerk from Sri Lanka or janitor from the Philippines Most of the Filipino workers I’ve come across in South East Asia don’t make any effort to learn the local language, and just stick with English. > A sign of the privileged Growing up brown in the UK doesn’t scream privilege to me, and anyone who’s spent much time in Asia will have witnessed that people of South Asian extraction can run into some serious prejudicial turbulence |
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> Born in England to Indian parents who later moved to Santa Barbara, Calif., [Pico Iyer] attended graduate school at Oxford and Harvard and then went to work for Time magazine.
We're getting off course here, but I do think there's a certain level of privilege when one snowbird's in a foreign country and doesn't bother learning the local language.
Immigrant workers in SE Asia would probably love to learn the local language if they weren't occupied working 16 hour shifts or sleeping.