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Month: August 2014

insensitive (casual?) comments

August 24, 2014January 4, 2015erizo Tags: assumptions, jobs, xenophobia

I am an American academic, teaching in the UK.  At a large social event at the start of my first year the two British grad students on either side of me had a loud conversation across me about Americans taking all the jobs away from British people.

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