Resumen de Language, disadvantage and discrimination: Breaking the cycle of majority group perception

Peter Furnborough, Tom Jupp, Roger Munns, Celia Mary Roberts

• This paper is in two distinct parts. In the first part we consider some of the ways in which indirect racial discrimination arises through the actual processes of interaction between participants of different ethnic backgrounds. We also give a brief overview of the approaches to awareness and communications training developed by Industrial Language trainers.

  The second part of the paper is a case study based on the experiences of a group of redundant Asian textile workers in Lancashire. The case study focuses on the differences in perception and assumptions between an Asian interviewee and a government training advisor at a panel selection interview for an engineering course.