It could be that the GP was using “American” to represent an issue of race rather than one of citizenship.

I'm asian-american myself and I was interviewed by other asians who I had trouble understanding despite being brought up around my own family's accent. I wasn't using "american" to represent race or citizenship.

I didn't see think of them as american because we clearly did not share anything in common and had trouble communicating with each other.

Side note: My grandmother is a US citizen, but she only knows how to say "Hello" and "thank you" in english. Bringing in citizenship feels disingenuous.

EDIT: Citizenship comment is regarding this conversation and not the article itself. Sorry if it seemed like an attack.

The point of this article is citizenship. I was just trying to understand the point you were making, and thank you for being clear.

You are right. I jumped to conclusions. I just assumed they were h1b's because of their thick/strong accents and unamericanized names.

So just being on H1B is bad now?

No? I neither said nor implied anything negative about the character of h1b's.

Bloomberg writes article about Cisco's bias for hiring h1b's over US workers.

I mention my anecdotal experience with Bloomberg where nearly everyone I interacted with was not US born and had thick accents.

I thought the irony was funny. Don't twist my words.