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How to address discriminatory name pronunciation

My professor consistently mispronounces names from certain cultures but gets European names right on the first try, and I don't know if I should say something.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The selective effort to learn names reveals unconscious bias that privileges some identities while marginalizing others.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Name and identity across cultures?”

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