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Old 09-02-2013, 12:33 PM   #234
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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp View Post
I disagree; in my experience after moving to Richmond in 1998 is that they are very accommodating. "These" restaurants get a bad rep, but if you are polite and kind to them, they usually act the same way in return. Only the assholes aren't, and well there are assholes everywhere, regardless of what kind of restaurant they work at, or what language they speak.
We're not talking about jerks existing in the service industry.

With respect to this topic, it's kind of hypocritical for this Chinese woman (and her son) demanding Mandarin accommodation from a business establishment when clearly Richmond doesn't even have a strong culture of accommodating English within their business establishments.

Like mentioned examples:

1) Currently existing restaurants that do not have (or at best, poorly) English literate staff.
2) The strong sentiment against the recent motion to change Chinese only business signs, bus ads, etc to accommodate for English communication/translation. How many pages did that thread get? How mixed was that discussion in that thread alone?
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