Here's a "hypothetical" situation I'd like to get your opinions on:
You are Spanish. You live and work in Spain. You were hired a few years ago by your boss, who is an immigrant to Spain from Thailand. Now, your boss speaks limited Spanish, but he can understand you most of the time.
Now, when you were first hired, you worked with a bunch of Spanish people. Then slowly, a lot of them quit, some new ones came, but they quit as well.
You're still here, after a few years, with your friend, who's Spanish and worked with you since you first got hired. Your boss starts hiring a lot of Thai people, who speak EXTREMELY limited Spanish. So now you and your friend are the only fluent Spanish speakers. You pretty much are separated from your friend, and you work alongside a lot of the Thai coworkers.
Now, since you have a bunch of Thai coworkers, they speak a lot of Thai. Only Thai. In front of the customers, in front of you, in front of your coworker. You pretty much get ignored while they are talking. So you feel like you're becoming the spine in the very flabby, weak body that is your job. You pretty much have to come save the day whenever your coworkers are over their head.
You are also talked down to on a more than occasional basis by your boss' cousin, who he hired two years after you were hired.
You're also feeling very left out, and you're beginning to wonder if they're talking about you while you're standing less than 4 feet away from them. As well, you're wondering if one of your coworkers (who appears to have seniority over you) is trying to undermine you, or really dislikes you.
Now, once in a while, you get a Thai customer! Lord almighty! So, seeing as you're pretty much at the front, you go up to them as they enter your work.
One of your coworkers comes up to you, says "I got this, they're Thai!" and pretty much shoos you off. The customers don't even acknowledge you as you try to ring them through.
You've had one customer, who's been going to your store for 15 years, says that without you and your friend, the customer wouldn't bother coming back in. Even though both the customer's children have worked there in the past, one of them being pretty much put on a pedestal.
Would you consider this whole scenario discriminatory and/or racist?
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