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Originally Posted by Taf
I applied for a radio tech job with them, and got through to the final stage. The someone started talking to me in Welsh, and seemed aghast that I did not understand. I was asked why I had put down "bilingual" on my application, and I told them I was bilingual: English and French. Application denied on the spot.
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Did the job ad specify that the applicant be fluent in Welsh? If it just said bi lingual, you'd have a reason for complaint because there are hundreds of other languages besides English and Welsh.
As for positive discrimination, I personally think it is *still* discrimination, therefore in general, still bad. However, the press, while condemning the BBC for encouraging ethnic minorities to apply, also condemn the BBC for being too white and too middle class.
So, everyone who has condemned the BBC for this action, how do you propose they get script writers from ethnic backgrounds to apply? Also bear in mind they run more than one training course each year, which the papers (both Mail and Sun) have studiously avoided mentioning.
By the way, they have replied.
http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a7...in-front-page/