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How to maintain dignity when others assume incompetence

The social worker assigned to my case speaks to me like I am stupid because my English is not perfect but I have two engineering degrees from my country.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Language barriers become proxies for intelligence, erasing people's expertise and reducing them to their limitations.

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