—”He decided it would be a good idea to learn Mandarin. Considering so many of his coworkers are Chinese.”
A good idea, no doubt about it!
They were always nice to me.
Plus...
One day they brought a new trainee to show her around.
A Chinese girl and cute as a bug in a rug.
My fearless leader, a big cheese, starts giving me the elbow and pointing to the young lady.
This was a workplace that was PC/woke before woke existed.
I could be unemployed if reported for such poor behavior.
She did have a nice smile.
He applied for a PHD program at several universities. Was accepted by a couple but he decided to go to work instead.
Some of the PHD labs at places like Harvard were 100% Chinese including the professors. At all of the ones he visited he(white male) would have been a minority.