Choi immigrated to the United States from Korea about 10 years ago. She is now 46 years old. Here, she comments on what she sees as language discrimination:
Once, I went to the bank and I was waiting on line for the longest time. Not because they were really busy, but only because they were busy talking with each other for fun. And when I try to confront them, they don’t care. They ignore you and say “go wait online, I’m busy.” But if some other person who speaks English fluently goes to confront them, they say “sorry.” Nothing big, but things like that happen all the time. You need to speak English to be treated right.”
