my first taste of discrimination Thursday, May 31, 2007
i thought after coming here, i wont face discrimination anymore, but looks like i was so wrong!!
on monday during my last Health Science Communication (something like esls) class, i had to do my presentation on my research paper. i got kinda low marks but nevermind la i accept it..
after presentations, the tutor said there's another practice which the school of pharmacy wanted them to do on us, some sort of assessment to see how eloquent we were in speaking impromptu. half the class did this exercise a couple of weeks ago, so this last day was for the other half of the class. so a few of us stayed back for the test, including a canadian born chinese (spencer) and an arabian (i think) girl who has stayed in aus for quite some time (zahara). teacher turned towards them and said "u two are allowed to leave its ok.." so spencer and zahara were like blur blur and walked towards the door..but zahara turned back and said "but i havent done this exercise yet..?" teacher said "its ok..i know u can do it.." *nods her head*
when i heard that i felt so insulted!!i mean, what is this man?? if this is an assessment which the pharm school wants u to do on us, BE FAIR and assess everyone la!! how can u ASSUME who can do it and who cannot?? the only ppl left in the room were chinese..and all were either from msia, singapore or hongkong!! like so super obvious ok!! i really dont understand how tutors can behave like this..not to brag or what, but my english is not bad what..this is really the 1st time i'm being humiliated lidat ok..! was super bu suang with the tutor that day man..luckily it was last lesson adi n i dont have to see her face anymore! just because these ppl have the angmoh accent means they can talk very well la izit? throw them an impromptu situation and they may not be able to speak properly what..why only non-accent ppl get assessed?? discrimination..
posted by ~luckystar~ @ 11:15 PM