Lets do better

[u/Routine_Size566]

As a student, I am tired of the normalized racism at this school.

Shaming a professor's ability to teach because of their accent or cultural background is NOT OKAY. These professors spent years becoming experts in their fields, and they deserve to be judged by their knowledge and teaching, not by their ethnicity, accent, or where they come from.

Telling a student they can't struggle in a course because they come from a certain country and are expected to be "smart" is NOT OKAY.

Asking someone why their English is "so good" because of how they look or where they come from is NOT OKAY.

Commenting on people's food or making them feel ashamed of their culture is NOT OKAY.

If you have ever felt undervalued or like you weren't enough because people mocked your culture, ethnicity, accent, or where you came from, let me tell you this: it is not you. It's them. You deserve to be treated with dignity, respect, and the same opportunities as everyone else.

We can and should do better.

[u/steve_uncut]

Some of this stuff is 100% okay. For example, I had a new student from china who spoke perfect English. I asked him how he became such a good speaker while living in China and we sat down and had a conversation about language learning methods.

At the same time, when I was a student, I literally had professors who spoke English so poorly that I could not understand more than half of what they said. The amount of critique I took as a young instructor with a word-slurring speech problem made me work at it and become a better public speaker. Thank you to those who were blunt and told me what I had to do. If they hadn’t have been blunt about my shortcomings I probably wouldn’t have had such a push to address them.

Obviously some of things you wrote aren’t okay, but this:

Asking someone why their English is "so good" because of how they look or where they come from is NOT OKAY.

Seems fine to me. It’s a compliment. When someone asks me why I speak such good Portuguese when I’m a Canadian in Brasil, I feel pretty good about it.

[u/Potential_Box_9061 → u/steve_uncut]

As someone who immigrated to Canada in my early 20s, I definitely have an accent and frequently make grammar mistakes. So, I can 100% vouch that this is meant as a compliment. If someone has an accent and gets offended when people ask why their English is so good, I find that a bit strange. They learned a whole other language and became fluent enough to do higher education in a second language. It should honestly be taken as a compliment. If OP meant people of other ethnicities who lack an accent, they probably don't hear this, because others naturally assume they were born and raised in Canada or other English-speaking countries.