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Richard B the EMT

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  1. So far, no problems. I work in a predominantly black neighborhood, have a Haitian partner, and have problems with communicating with the new immigrant Russian population, who don't speak much if any English. Most of the Hispanic population are from Nicaragua, but my partner from Haiti speaks a bunch of languages, and that lessens the language barrier. By my ethnic and religious background, I should be able to speak, in alphabetical order, German, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, and Yiddish. I don't. I just don't have an aptitude for foreign languages; witness that after 5 school terms of first year Spanish, all I can really do, is ask and understand the question of "what time is it?" I do have the nasty co-workers saying I don't really speak English (my native tongue, American variety). To them, I joke that I'm speaking "Brooklyneese," even though I'm actually not from Brooklyn. Most of the bigotry I witness is directed at me, an admittedly overweight white guy, by those who are either incarcerated, or restrained EDPs.
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