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Managing Cultural Diversity at Work
1. You can’t say what you think these days without
someone saying that you’re being offensive.
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indicate]
2. They’ve got a chip on their shoulder (said of people
from minority cultures).
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indicate]
3. Equal opportunities is for them, not for me (i.e. for
minority cultures).
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indicate]
4. I don’t notice anyone’s colour – why are we making such a big deal of
it?
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indicate]
5. They (people from other cultural backgrounds) come over here, take our jobs, and now
they want us to change our rules, regulations and customs for them.
[Agreement may
indicate]
6. I don’t mind as long as I don’t have to work for one.
[Agreement may
indicate]
7. When in Rome do as the Romans so.
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indicate]
8. They should speak our language when they are at work – it’s rude to speak
foreign languages in front of English people – they’re probably talking about
us.
[Agreement may
indicate]
9. There couldn’t be racial discrimination in an organisation that employs a high
number of minority ethnic staff.
[Agreement may
indicate]
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