2019年商务英语中级情景口语：歧视

　　discrimination

　　Dialogue 1

　　M:Half of the new executives hired in the next six months must come from the majority backgrounds.New company polity is to eliminate any kind of discriminatory attitudes that may have been prevalent in the past.

　　W:What is that?Some kind of new affirmative action?You know I am strictly against any kind of quarter system.It just doesn't seem fair to hire someone for his race,and not for his qualifications and experience.

　　M:That is the point exactly.If you look our current makes of managerial level staff,90 percent come from majority background.Were just too homogenous,how many qualified and experienced minorities were turned away because of their color of the skin or the sound of their accent.I believe that it's time for a change.If we need a quarter system that helps us to put that change to effect,then so be it.

　　W:Quarters may for such to be more homogenous,but they can't garantee a high quality of staff.And diversity is not all its correct up to be either.

　　M:what do you mean?

　　W:For one thing,diversity usually brings contention,will suddenly be dealing with all kinds of issues and conflicts that were never a big deal before.One small example is bilingualism and multiple language presenting of company materials.That's costly and inefficient,but sometime is necessary when you bring minority into the picture.I've seen that happened to the company before.

　　M:Diversities may not be the efficient,you're right.But it brings other things to the table.You see conflict,I see creativity;you see inefficient,I see innovation.We need more than one way of doing things.

　　Dilogue 2

　　M:How's the job search going?Any luck?

　　W:I'm getting pretty fed up with how much discrimination there is in the workfore these days.

　　M:What do you mean?

　　W:I mean that every time I send out a resume and get called back for an interview.They imediately change their minds as soon as they see the color of my skin.I am thinking that it is just my save of everybody's time if I send a picture with my resume first.To let them know that I'm not a blonde-haired,blue-eyed American,I'm 100 percent of American,but it just so happens that I come from Asian ancestry.So I do not look any different on the outside.

　　M:So because of your heritage,people won't give you a chance to become an English teacher.

　　w:No,I am perfectly qualified.English is my native language.Hack,I've been went to university for 4 years to become an English teacher.But here is the outside appearence that is more important than any kind of ability.

　　M:That's right.You can see any joke-blow out of the street with the right looks get tunneled jobs.But you don't feel the sterile type,you're out of luck.