“A service user is in tears as a care worker tells her, Don’t be such a baby! Mandy is a much nicer name than Manjula. You live here now, we can call you what we like.”
2007-12-09 09:09:10 · 12 answers · asked by Yorkshire Gurlie ♥ 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
like the slave days when black people could no longer have their own identities or names.
2007-12-09 09:15:16 · answer #1 · answered by gemma r 5 · 9⤊ 2⤋
I'm not sure that is necessarily racist, it would be a bit like insisting on calling someone Deborah when their name was actually Debbie, for example. It is, however, totally out of order. The person in question has every right to insist on being called by their proper name or their own choice of nickname. To insist on calling someone another name is humiliating, inconsiderate, and deeply wrong, as a name is very personal.
The person who made this comment is totally out of order and should be given a disciplinary over this treatment of the service user.
Be careful about bringing 'race' into it, it could be that the carer's intentions are racist, but on the other hand, she might just be arrogant and inconsiderate.
2007-12-09 09:18:28 · answer #2 · answered by Outsider 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It just is. Hard to explain. The care worker likes the white name Mandy instead of her real name Manjula.
2007-12-09 09:16:18 · answer #3 · answered by Sexxiii 5 · 7⤊ 2⤋
Because its seems as though that care worker is trying to "whiten" up whoever that Manjula girl into Mandy..
2007-12-09 09:17:00 · answer #4 · answered by Tough Shituation 5 · 8⤊ 2⤋
another very worrying point is the last sentence "you live here now we can call you what we want" what is this "carer"implying?Is there no training in this workplace?What other methods can be used to dis empower this unfortunate service user?
2007-12-09 09:48:07 · answer #5 · answered by diamonds on my windshield 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh wow that is racist i mean just like slavery"the white man called slaves a different name because they thought it was more of there culture"...do i hear a lawsuit...we shouldnt try to americanize everything especially a name
2007-12-09 09:17:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
The last sentence is offensive and insulting. Sounds like a real jerk whoever said that.
2007-12-09 09:15:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 1⤋
Ok so tell me.. How is that really racist anyways? So giving her a new name, to make up for her real name is saying they are less superior?
2007-12-09 09:24:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
What are you tlking about this doesn't mean anything but people don't have lives
2007-12-09 09:44:58 · answer #9 · answered by cubancutie345 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not.It's authoritarianism.Wrong,but not racist.Not everything can have that tag.
2007-12-09 09:35:54 · answer #10 · answered by Angel 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋