I'm disabled and disfigured and was often in academia, while getting my degree, put in more marginalized labs and more marginalized parts of the dorm, where other people like foreigners who couldn't speak English well or other people disabilities were, and there was more conflict there.
Well-known Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes recommended this week that dark-skinned people, men with mustaches, women who use shawls, or anyone who does not speak English well should not go to Arizona, because the state has "officially declared itself racist, " the government-run Notimex news service reported Wednesday.
"He didn't speak English that well and with my Yorkshire slang, I think that made things difficult too, " said Toseland.
While just over half of first-generation Asian immigrants say that they speak English "very well, " 95% of those born in the U.S. say they do.
The shame is often intensified by the fact that many (other) Europeans, especially northern ones, speak English at least as well as the natives.
"Alwi Shihab may speak English and Arabic very well, " a political analyst says of the urbane new Foreign Minister, a former professor of comparative religion at Harvard.
Afro-Latinos will tell you of discrimination from those who speak Spanish, as well as from those who speak English.
"They speak English and they are very well educated, " said Julia MacLauchlan, director of Microsoft's worldwide product group.
Like many local children, young Allen was brought up to speak German as well as English, and it may be because of those early links that he took an interest in how Europe's most industrialised country was dealing with the problems of the environment.
This was the first census to ask how well the population could speak English when it was not a person's main language.
But today their job prospects are rosier - they are well equipped for multinational customer service positions and speak English fluently.
In both America and Britain, some feel that, whatever people speak at home, priority should go to making sure that children know English well.
Yet the latest immigrants appear to be less well educated than native-born Californians, and some speak little or no English.
Our analysis does not hinge on English enjoying official-language status across Europe, only that Europeans are able to speak it well.
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