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Re:Google advised mental health care when workers complained... by serial_dev on Monday March 08, 2021 @06:29AM (#26384591)
I moved to Germany and learned that the "Where are you from" question is not a good icebreaker. As an immigrant working in an industry with lots of other immigrants, I thought it's okay to ask, but once you ask a German person of foreign descent this question they might perceive it as if I said they are not really German (sometimes context can make it even worse).
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Re:Google advised mental health care when workers complained... by psychiatrist24 on Monday March 08, 2021 @06:32AM (#26384616)
That's just propaganda by grievance activists, though. "Where are you from" is standard German small talk. Notice how effectively this method destroys communities, nobody dares to talk to each other anymore, for fear of saying something wrong.
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Re:Google advised mental health care when workers complained... by serial_dev on Monday March 08, 2021 @08:38AM (#26385547)
I don't think it's just propaganda, I honestly felt a couple of times that I inadvertently made people feel bad. It's not like they threw a fit and called me racist (like the "grievance activist" implies).

Also, I don't want to say that anytime I asked this question I offended someone, it's more like 3% of the time I had this feeling that I wish I didn't ask.

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Re:Google advised mental health care when workers complained... by psychiatrist24 on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:02PM (#26391501)
Grievance activists teach them that they should feel bad, and it is communicated on many channels. But grievance activists should not dictate to us how to behave or feel.
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Re:Google advised mental health care when workers complained... by zo1 on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:23PM (#26389453)
Why would they feel bad or offended about you asking them where they're from? That's already a weird state for people's psyche to be in. That negative link between "asking where they're from" and the person having negative feelings is precisely the effect that the "propaganda" as OP called it is having on people.
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