LPGA has just announced a new rule that requires all LPGA members(players) to speak English. Players who cannot communicate in English will be suspended.
Here’s a funny quote:
“Being a US-based tour, and with the majority of our fan base, pro-am contestants, sponsors and participants being English speaking, we think it is important for our players to effectively communicate in English,” Galloway said.
Now, I must disagree with this US-based fans. LPGA is not simply for Americans it’s really for the world to see.
If LPGA “thinks” its viewers mainly consist of English speaking people, think again please as a big portion of LPGA viewers also come from Korea, Sweden, and other home countries of LPGA players.
I personally know about a thousand people who watch the LPGA in Korea around 3am simply because of the time difference.
What LPGA really need to do is fire the person who made this stupid rule that is simply prejudice from my standpoint and my upbringing in the United Stated after having moved here at age of nine.
To whoever decided to make this stupid rule that is obviously prejudice against players from non-English speaking countries:
If you simply cannot stand all the Swedes and Korean stars that are taking over the LPGA, quit your job and do something else but don’t tell me you are going to stump on some of the best international LPGA players’ faces by telling them you can’t play if you can’t speak English. Don’t waste my fuckin’ time with you bullshit rules, this isn’t golf this is prejudice bitches. Sorry to be brutally honest but you were being brutally prejudice.
I can tell you that I know this hurts international players more than anything else as English wasn’t my first language either.
Anytime you want to single out a group of race or people, think about this first, “What if I was one of them, would I want to be treated like this?”
It’s a perfectly clear prejudice of another person simply based on where he/she is from, not who he/she is.
This form of prejudice must be stopped in any professional golf or sporting event.
My great peaceful life was going great until this morning I heard this, and I have to say this unjust rule must be gone very quickly. Stupid LPGA officials, that’s what I say.
For now, we will have to wait and see what Florida laws say about discrimination based on someone’s LANGUAGE for god sakes:
But if Korea’s most famous female player was broadly supportive, some civil liberties activists in the US claimed a language requirement could violate state law. “Florida law prohibits discrimination in public accommodations,” said Howard Simon, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Florida. “They may well violate Florida discrimination laws because language is a key element of person’s national origin. People should be judged on their ability to perform a job. English fluency has no more to do with the ability to play 18 holes of golf than whether you walk 18 holes or ride 18 holes.”
via guardian
