well the US is largely english speaking so...
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So damn predictable.
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the majority of people in the US speak english. they obviously couldn't accept ALL languages, so that means they'd have to pick and choose, which ends up becoming more exclusionary ("why'd you accept spanish but not german?"). i think the safest (and fairest) pick was english.
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If you're in desperate need for patients for trials, you go by the next biggest language population. If language of patients is the main barrier to your science, it has a pretty obvious solution.
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But it isn't that they're just excluding anyone who doesn't speak English, it's that this study requires an interpreter - and there aren't enough people in the field to do non-English interpreting. It's phrased as though it's discrimination, but it's really just a lack of ability
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But even then, what should be "the next biggest language population"? Even if Spanish is the main non-English language spoken in the US, this is in MA, which has a comparatively low Hispanic population. So then would Italian or German be a better choice?
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My point was that, even if they had the capability to interpret people of another language, they'd have to make those kinds of judgements, which are susceptible to prejudice.
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Just saying: English is not the official language of America. We do not have a national language. If you want English as an official language, go to Singapore (it is the official language of that country).
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is it a language barrier or can they not remember how to speak their native tongue...
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And here it is. The dumbest thing I’ll read all day.
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Stop race baiting everything.
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Oh us evil, evil old white English speaking people.
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It's the US. English is our first language
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