Perhaps, but widespread obsequiousness to, and fear of, senior scholars and their attitudes, is one of Academia's greatest problems.
My "favourite" story on this in academia is my experience of going to the uni library when I was a PhD student VS my mixed-race friend (also
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PhD student). She has an accent too. I deleted mine when I moved to UK a decade ago because I was young and wanted to be treated better.
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Anyway, so I go to the library and get asked if I need help finding a book by librarian as I walk upstairs to first floor. I say "no thanks
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I'm fine". A couple days later, she goes to the library and asks the librarian for help finding a book. She didn't get asked if she needs
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help, she went up to her. And she said: "Do you not have libraries in your country?" When she told me this story, immediately after it
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happened, I wanted to weep and scream and make a complaint. But it's too complex sadly to present such cases.
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