Prejudging Will Cost You Your Business
The best way to take advantage of society's multicultural makeup is by empowering it through a multilingual business. The right words, whether written or spoken, can be the missing link that leads to a sale and success. With this in mind, it’s important to realize that while words are powerful they are also fickle – when said wrong by mistake or maliciously, they may have consequences you weren't expecting. Words Matter: A Fair Trial for Multilingual Businesses.
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A survey conducted by the National Council Against Drugs (CONAD) in Chile found that out of 1,028 people questioned, 8% said they had tried cocaine at some point in their lives.
Although it seemed that this figure was higher than the average among Western countries, only 6% actually admitted to using cocaine regularly; this appears to confirm the Chilean belief that cocaine consumption is committed mainly by a minority. Although there are no official statistical figures on cocaine consumption in Chile, since 1989 there has been an increase.
In my opinion, the most misunderstood and misconstrued part of our lexicon is the term language bias . . . However, it’s not a bias. It’s simply a reflection of its use in everyday speech and colloquialisms. Language bias has nothing to do with race or ethnicity; it has everything to do with your choice of words and the type of word that you choose. Though, there are a few languages that are considered to be biased in particular, those negative words or jargon fall in the realm of slang or colloquialism. In general, language bias is when a customer or potential customer doesn’t understand your industry and/or the type of service being provided to them. This is a critical flaw that can only be effectively resolved through communication skills and language.
The US Federal and State constitutions protect all persons, whether they are foreign or not, the right to a fair trial. In practice, this means that everyone has a right to understand what is happening in their court case. This protection is aimed at ensuring that anyone who is accused of a crime can effectively communicate with their attorney about the charges being brought against them.
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law represents over 100 multilingual civil rights organizations and other allies from across the United States as well as a diverse group of leading private and public sector legal services providers dedicated to promoting equal justice under law for people of color. It has indicated that Michigan has one of the worst “language access plans” in America .
Efforts are currently underway to assist Michigan courts in improving language access in the state. It has requested that the Michigan Supreme Court adopt a resolution for language access for court interpreters, move towards implementation of “language assistance” in all cases, and develop an “applied best practices” training program for judges.
Our clients want to feel comfortable with the people who interpret their cases and want to understand what is happening before their case is heard. It is not reasonable for interpreters or judges to assume that everyone understands what is happening behind the scenes.
The question that needs to be asked is: Why do we have interpreters for our courts?
The following are some statistics of instances where the term "language bias" has been used.
In 1988, a New York court ruled in favor of an Arab-American professor in her dispute with her former employer over whether she had specified her language preference on her application. The court ruled that it was not bias, but instead was required by law and thus protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). In October 2007, a federal appeals court ruled that the U.S. Postal Service's use of an Indonesian-speaking interpreter at its New York City office violated the law and that it had no right to ask the woman "In what language are you conducting this interview?"
In April 2009, a federal appeals court in Illinois affirmed a lower court ruling that St. Joseph Hospital, which employed language bias against Spanish-speaking employees, had discriminated against them on the basis of national origin and race in violation of Title VI. In July 2009, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Kays found that American Airlines has engaged in "bias" against Hispanic employees by requiring them to speak English only and forbidding them from speaking Spanish at certain customer service call centers.
In February 2009, an African American woman won a suit for allegedly being wrongly fired from her job at the Holiday Inn Express Baltimore in 2005 because she spoke Spanish during a job interview. The court has awarded her $62,000 in damages and back pay after finding that her Spanish-speaking status was "a natural consequence of the defendant's rigidly enforced language policy".
In June 2005, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued US Airways for alleged bias against Spanish speakers. In November 2008, the EEOC gained a settlement agreement from US Airways requiring it to implement an employee EEO training program for managers two years prior to their probationary period ending and require mandatory reporting of any potential language bias discovered.
In 2005, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Labor jointly issued a directive that required employers to ask applicants in interviews if they can understand English and give them translation services when they are unable to understand the questions. They urged that employers include information about translation in job advertisements.
It is illegal for an employer to discriminate against a job applicant on the basis of their language preference under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act (EEA).
The American Bar Association has ruled that a person who is fluent in English and Italian may be considered competent to perform the job of a paralegal.
Given the ubiquity of English, it would seem that language bias would have little impact on non-native speakers' ability to participate in society, but it can affect native English speakers. For example, speakers of foreign languages are often treated as if they are less competent than native speakers of English due to language bias. In 2000, Stephen J. Lippmann wrote: "A natural consequence of this kind of language discrimination is that non-native-speaking people are not given the same resources in their learning process." Or, in R.A. Hill's words: "Discrimination against people who speak languages other than English limits their access to the resources they need both to learn English and to master our society's dominant form of knowledge."
Several legal scholars have noted that language bias serves as a barrier to economic achievement for many non-English speakers. For example, Lippmann notes: "Traditional visa practices and welfare laws, for instance, even in the most generous countries, provide no job training or special education for refugees. Refugees therefore suffer disproportionately from unemployment and poverty". Elisa J. Proctor argues that "language is often wielded as a weapon against those least able to defend themselves".
Conclusion
Language bias is a form of discrimination. Language is used to discriminate against non-English speakers. The linguistic characteristics of a language are not associated with any group or group identity. But, the language of a person has been used to determine his ethnicity and hence he has been discriminated against.
In general, language bias in Western nations tends to favor English over other languages because of the nation's history and its status as an international lingua franca. This can cause people who speak other languages to feel marginalized due to the fact that they have less access than English speakers to political power, economic opportunity and higher education.