Ok...as i was googling around in the internet i came across an interesting article about Job discrimination, although it's not about Language discrimination it can be related to everything we've been talking about since the beginning of the thread! I was so astounded with the news that i decided to check the same article veracity in some other online newspapers...according to the mentioned article, people now are being judged by their height when applying for a job position in China. It's not enough to judge a person by their sex, ethnicity and language, but now we also have height discrimination. I wonder what will be the next thing brought up by Society to exclude people...eye colour? hair colour?
"As noted above, Chinese law does not expressly bar height discrimination, but a case brought by Jiang Tao came close. In December 2001, Jiang read an advertisement for a staff position of the Chengdu Branch of the People's Bank of China. Among the other qualifications listed, the ad required that male applicants be over 168 centimeters in height (about five feet, six inches), and that female applicants be over 155 centimeters (about five feet, one inch)."...The original article:
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dorf/20040526.html