Your post reminds me that in the past I came across some agency SPs who were openly advertised as seeing French speaking clients ONLY. As a unilingual Anglophone white American, I was curious about this exclusion, although not terribly offended by it. The agency told me that the SP in question wasn't comfortable communicating about levels of intimacy and doing negotiations in other than her native tongue, French. What I took this to mean was she didn't want to haggle over how much extra for a BBBJ as opposed to CBJ or some other service in English. I respected this because I didn't want there to be any miscommunication. Although on one level I was saddened by the exclusion based on my French sucking monkey balls (or being nonexistent, except for an ability to read menus in French).However after COVID somehow when I began to work here I've always been asked about where my perfect level of French comes from ... Well because I'm French ...
Maybe it's more common or understandable that a visible minority person speaks French québécois whereas ones who speaks France French is weird?
Maybe lot of unconscious bias going here
My recollection is I did ask one such agency if I could bring in the super-bilingual Doc Holliday as an interpreter and translator at the very beginning of the session to do the necessary translations and negotiations. They said it was not going to work. I was prepared to tip Holliday as well as the girl if this proposition was accepted, but it wasn't. So I got excluded, even though I am a white guy and even though money would have been paid to make the perceived problem go away.
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