At work, we had a mandatory diversity training session for our outsourced tasks to India. We covered a lot of things we shouldn't do that would offend Indians. Someone (not me sad to say) asked if the Indians had to take a similar course on not offending Americans. There was a big silence.
For what it is worth, 75% of the Indians I have worked with are great workers and have a work ethic that should be emulated by a lot of us. I still thought the session was very offensive.
Holy Cow, whatta big surprise.
’ if the Indians had to take a similar course on not offending Americans.’
I supervised a team of 5 Indians when I worked at BofA.
There was a black gentleman that worked on a back row of cubes in our area. Had a woman looking for someone in our and I suspected that she was looking for this person. I asked her if he was a black gentleman and she concurred.
The two Indians standing with me acted as if I had just advocated nuking New Delhi.
I was told that you can’t call a black person, ‘black’. It has to be African-American. So yes, they are counseled on how not to offend black people. Needless to say, it did not sit well with myself.