حساسیت زبانی و پیشداوری در بریتانیا

hi there people often like the UK because we are a tolerant Society we work against Prejudice or we try to but did you know that native English speakers struggle with their own language around this topic well it's true today let's talk about how sensitive we are around the language that we use when describing people this sensitivity can make English challenging but under understanding it can also give you deeper insights into British culture the word sensitive is an adjective s NS i t i v e and if something is sensitive in this context it means easy to harm easy to get it wrong and the noun to go with that is sensitivity s NS i t i v it y so I'm talking about particular sensitivity around adjectives or describing words when we're talking about people or types of people in the UK we try to work against Prejudice that's p r e j u d i c e Prejudice is when you judge people before you know them you prejudge them in other words it could be because of their age their gender their race their religion or some other characteristic and we strive to use language that reflects this so we're very careful with words let's explore that in this podcast hello I'm Hillary and you're listening to Adept English we will help you to speak English fluently all you have to do is listen so start listening now and find out how it works for you as an English language learner well the English language is hard enough if it's not your first language but these are things that English speakers struggle with trying to use language that isn't prejudiced so this is useful up Toth minute British culture British culture is not just about Cups of Tea and red telephone boxes it's about discussions like this the current way that people think what informs our conversation and important for you too you don't want to offend people in English especially when you don't intend to so today in this podcast it's your usual English language listening practice ice but with an insight into prejudicial language the language of prejudice and how to avoid it so the example of this that I noticed that caught my eye as we say was a news article on the BBC News website the headline theater removes offensive job adver language the link is of course in the transcript if you want to read this article yourself I think you'll know what a theater is that's t h e a t r e and job adver language just means the words they've used to advertise a job and the adjective offensive o f f n SI i v e that means likely to give offense likely to upset or hurt people and that's even if the offense was not intentional with prejudice and prejudicial language it's often unthinking or unintentional by now you may be wondering what on Earth did a theater company say in its job advert that was offensive to people have I got your Curiosity on this one apparently this was the Camden people's theater a theater company in North London and probably one that you'd least expect to use the language of prejudice and their intention was good it's just they got the words wrong so what was it that they said in their job advert on X formerly Twitter how did they get into trouble just before I go any further don't forget our new activate your listening course it's available on our website simply if you need to speed up your English language learning then go and have a look at this course it's really good it's there at adep english.com so with a very good intention the Camden people's Theater Company put out a job advert and they said that they welcome applications from a number of disadvantaged groups groups that might face Prejudice in other words they said that we welcome job applications from people who are working class benefit class criminal class or underclass that makes me cringe what's wrong with this then well it's British class system stuff if you were born working class in the UK it means that your family didn't have very much money were possibly not well educated and you didn't live in the nice area of town that's working class in short and what they're saying is this the company if you are working class don't be put off please we encourage you to apply for our jobs now I would include myself as working class it's not my life now but it certainly was my life growing up and I don't think I take offense at the description working class but the next term benefit class what does that mean this means the class of people who exist on state benefits that's b n fi TS the state pays for these people and they don't work in other words and sometimes this is throughout a particular Community particularly in poor areas where there are a lot of social problems usually as well so it's a real phenomenon and it's said with a sort of criticism because there's the idea that people choose this as a lifestyle you can get work in the UK there are job opportunities so you don't need to choose this lifestyle you might say so that's what we call a negative label it goes on to say criminal class now criminal class if you're a criminal it means you break the law so these words describe communities of people or families where people are into petty crime usually they don't work but they steal things they might deal in drugs or they might do benefit fraud defrauding the state over their benefit payments they might steal cars to do robberies or they may have some type of Mafia like activity going on that's criminal class so basically they do illegal things to make money and underclass really describes this as well so these terms criminal class benefits class underclass they describe a real phenomenon in British Society the problem is if you use these terms to Define an individual we call that labeling these terms or labels imply a fixed negative identity which the person can't escape from and which are often inaccurate they're not true they fail to acknowledge the possibility of personal growth and potential for change so just because you were born into a disadvantaged background like this your struggle is being recognized without it defining you that's an important distinction so there's a difference between recognizing somebody's disadvantage recognizing that they're part of a group that face Prejudice that's not the same as labeling them what do Theater Company are trying to say here we don't care if you're working class criminal class underclass benefits class we encourage you to apply for our jobs anyway those things won't go against you so you can see here that the spirit the intention is good people from all of these backgrounds can apply especially important as theaters are often associated with Posh rich or well-educated people so the theater company are trying to be inclusive they're trying to include everyone in other words so you might say well surely that's a good thing why is this wrong and I agree with you their intention was positive so how did they get it wrong well their mistake was quite a subtle one but it matters let me explain I'll put aside working class for the minute although being working class has been a struggle for people in the past and continues to be it's not in itself an offensive term anymore workingclass people face a little less Prejudice than they used to but to say that you are criminal class underclass or benefits class these are definitely labels and it makes it sound as though this negative defines the whole person if you said that someone is from a background which is one of these that from a background way of putting it at least acknowledges the possibility that the person who's moved Beyond where they started out they've made different choices in their life this is how they started out but they have chosen to live differently subtle differences but important I think that if the Camden people's theater company had done two things different there wouldn't have been a problem and they would have sent the positive message that they intended firstly it would have been better not to use these negative descriptions when talking about specific individuals so criminal class benefits class underclass these do exist but it's better to talk about whole communities it would have been better if they said we encourage applications from people from a disadvantaged background meaning that's part of your history not the whole of you and if they just said working class most of the people who you might turn benefits class underclass or criminal class would also see themselves as working class the more positive term as well so that would have been inclusive enough I feel sorry for the Camden people's Theater Company actually in being specific they were trying to be open and honest about what they mean they were trying to open up the conversation about these things but instead they were condemned I do kind of get both sides on this now a more comp complicated quote for you to practice on Lee Elliot major who's a professor of social Mobility at exitor University he said we need to carefully consider the language that we use when promoting opportunities for people who have faced extra challenges in their lives he added I would certainly avoid terms like criminal class benefits class underclass which immediately position people as inferior when they often have a lot to offer so it's easy to get the language wrong even if you're a progressive organization trying to do the right thing like the Camden people's Theater Company let us know what you think did you understand this idea from my explanation it is a really difficult area of English language but at Adept English we do the difficult areas as well all to help you enough for now have a lovely day speak to again soon goodbye thank you so much for listening please help me tell others about this podcast by reviewing or rating it and please share it on social media you can find more listening lessons and a free English course at adep english.com [Music]

hi there people often like the UK because we are a tolerant Society we work against Prejudice or we try to but did you know that native English speakers struggle with their own language around this topic well it&#39;s true today let&#39;s talk about how sensitive we are around the language that we use when describing people this sensitivity can make English challenging but under understanding it can also give you deeper insights into British culture the word sensitive is an adjective s NS i t i v e and if something is sensitive in this context it means easy to harm easy to get it wrong and the noun to go with that is sensitivity s NS i t i v it y so I&#39;m talking about particular sensitivity around adjectives or describing words when we&#39;re talking about people or types of people in the UK we try to work against Prejudice that&#39;s p r e j u d i c e Prejudice is when you judge people before you know them you prejudge them in other words it could be because of their age their gender their race their religion or some other characteristic and we strive to use language that reflects this so we&#39;re very careful with words let&#39;s explore that in this podcast hello I&#39;m Hillary and you&#39;re listening to Adept English we will help you to speak English fluently all you have to do is listen so start listening now and find out how it works for you as an English language learner well the English language is hard enough if it&#39;s not your first language but these are things that English speakers struggle with trying to use language that isn&#39;t prejudiced so this is useful up Toth minute British culture British culture is not just about Cups of Tea and red telephone boxes it&#39;s about discussions like this the current way that people think what informs our conversation and important for you too you don&#39;t want to offend people in English especially when you don&#39;t intend to so today in this podcast it&#39;s your usual English language listening practice ice but with an insight into prejudicial language the language of prejudice and how to avoid it so the example of this that I noticed that caught my eye as we say was a news article on the BBC News website the headline theater removes offensive job adver language the link is of course in the transcript if you want to read this article yourself I think you&#39;ll know what a theater is that&#39;s t h e a t r e and job adver language just means the words they&#39;ve used to advertise a job and the adjective offensive o f f n SI i v e that means likely to give offense likely to upset or hurt people and that&#39;s even if the offense was not intentional with prejudice and prejudicial language it&#39;s often unthinking or unintentional by now you may be wondering what on Earth did a theater company say in its job advert that was offensive to people have I got your Curiosity on this one apparently this was the Camden people&#39;s theater a theater company in North London and probably one that you&#39;d least expect to use the language of prejudice and their intention was good it&#39;s just they got the words wrong so what was it that they said in their job advert on X formerly Twitter how did they get into trouble just before I go any further don&#39;t forget our new activate your listening course it&#39;s available on our website simply if you need to speed up your English language learning then go and have a look at this course it&#39;s really good it&#39;s there at adep english.com so with a very good intention the Camden people&#39;s Theater Company put out a job advert and they said that they welcome applications from a number of disadvantaged groups groups that might face Prejudice in other words they said that we welcome job applications from people who are working class benefit class criminal class or underclass that makes me cringe what&#39;s wrong with this then well it&#39;s British class system stuff if you were born working class in the UK it means that your family didn&#39;t have very much money were possibly not well educated and you didn&#39;t live in the nice area of town that&#39;s working class in short and what they&#39;re saying is this the company if you are working class don&#39;t be put off please we encourage you to apply for our jobs now I would include myself as working class it&#39;s not my life now but it certainly was my life growing up and I don&#39;t think I take offense at the description working class but the next term benefit class what does that mean this means the class of people who exist on state benefits that&#39;s b n fi TS the state pays for these people and they don&#39;t work in other words and sometimes this is throughout a particular Community particularly in poor areas where there are a lot of social problems usually as well so it&#39;s a real phenomenon and it&#39;s said with a sort of criticism because there&#39;s the idea that people choose this as a lifestyle you can get work in the UK there are job opportunities so you don&#39;t need to choose this lifestyle you might say so that&#39;s what we call a negative label it goes on to say criminal class now criminal class if you&#39;re a criminal it means you break the law so these words describe communities of people or families where people are into petty crime usually they don&#39;t work but they steal things they might deal in drugs or they might do benefit fraud defrauding the state over their benefit payments they might steal cars to do robberies or they may have some type of Mafia like activity going on that&#39;s criminal class so basically they do illegal things to make money and underclass really describes this as well so these terms criminal class benefits class underclass they describe a real phenomenon in British Society the problem is if you use these terms to Define an individual we call that labeling these terms or labels imply a fixed negative identity which the person can&#39;t escape from and which are often inaccurate they&#39;re not true they fail to acknowledge the possibility of personal growth and potential for change so just because you were born into a disadvantaged background like this your struggle is being recognized without it defining you that&#39;s an important distinction so there&#39;s a difference between recognizing somebody&#39;s disadvantage recognizing that they&#39;re part of a group that face Prejudice that&#39;s not the same as labeling them what do Theater Company are trying to say here we don&#39;t care if you&#39;re working class criminal class underclass benefits class we encourage you to apply for our jobs anyway those things won&#39;t go against you so you can see here that the spirit the intention is good people from all of these backgrounds can apply especially important as theaters are often associated with Posh rich or well-educated people so the theater company are trying to be inclusive they&#39;re trying to include everyone in other words so you might say well surely that&#39;s a good thing why is this wrong and I agree with you their intention was positive so how did they get it wrong well their mistake was quite a subtle one but it matters let me explain I&#39;ll put aside working class for the minute although being working class has been a struggle for people in the past and continues to be it&#39;s not in itself an offensive term anymore workingclass people face a little less Prejudice than they used to but to say that you are criminal class underclass or benefits class these are definitely labels and it makes it sound as though this negative defines the whole person if you said that someone is from a background which is one of these that from a background way of putting it at least acknowledges the possibility that the person who&#39;s moved Beyond where they started out they&#39;ve made different choices in their life this is how they started out but they have chosen to live differently subtle differences but important I think that if the Camden people&#39;s theater company had done two things different there wouldn&#39;t have been a problem and they would have sent the positive message that they intended firstly it would have been better not to use these negative descriptions when talking about specific individuals so criminal class benefits class underclass these do exist but it&#39;s better to talk about whole communities it would have been better if they said we encourage applications from people from a disadvantaged background meaning that&#39;s part of your history not the whole of you and if they just said working class most of the people who you might turn benefits class underclass or criminal class would also see themselves as working class the more positive term as well so that would have been inclusive enough I feel sorry for the Camden people&#39;s Theater Company actually in being specific they were trying to be open and honest about what they mean they were trying to open up the conversation about these things but instead they were condemned I do kind of get both sides on this now a more comp complicated quote for you to practice on Lee Elliot major who&#39;s a professor of social Mobility at exitor University he said we need to carefully consider the language that we use when promoting opportunities for people who have faced extra challenges in their lives he added I would certainly avoid terms like criminal class benefits class underclass which immediately position people as inferior when they often have a lot to offer so it&#39;s easy to get the language wrong even if you&#39;re a progressive organization trying to do the right thing like the Camden people&#39;s Theater Company let us know what you think did you understand this idea from my explanation it is a really difficult area of English language but at Adept English we do the difficult areas as well all to help you enough for now have a lovely day speak to again soon goodbye thank you so much for listening please help me tell others about this podcast by reviewing or rating it and please share it on social media you can find more listening lessons and a free English course at adep english.com [Music]

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حساسیت زبانی و پیشداوری در بریتانیا