So is, not being able to understand someone racism?

[boro_boy]

I was reading through the news stories on the BBC websites and one story was about the Relocation of call centers from abroad to the UK.

Here is a link to the story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6353491.stm

Just cause people can't understand an accent does not mean they are racist, far from it. This just annoys me the more people are pulling out the racism card.

Just one of the comments that wound me up:

This is another prime example of English racism. Most foreigners speak a better standard of English than we do!
Josephine Boyd, Bermondsey, London, UK


1. Its not racism
2. Foreigners do not speak a better standard of English than we do, if they did then why are we having these problems. Duh!!

[cliffy]

Its fucking ridiculous. It drives me mad when I have to talk to a foreigner somehwere in India. I can't understand a thing they sayhalf the time but I'm not racist because I cannot understand them. I can't understand the people at shaplas when I order a curry either but they dont start saying I'm racist because I keep asking them to repeat their questions.

[Simonutd]

people in forigne call centers do not speak english like what i do, i cant understand them, and i dont think it is raciest and people who think it is are morons