{"id":61456,"date":"2020-09-06T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/usc-professor-placed-on-leave-for-using-chinese-expression-that-sounds-like-n-word\/"},"modified":"2020-09-06T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T20:21:00","slug":"usc-professor-placed-on-leave-for-using-chinese-expression-that-sounds-like-n-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/usc-professor-placed-on-leave-for-using-chinese-expression-that-sounds-like-n-word\/","title":{"rendered":"#USC professor placed on leave for using Chinese expression that sounds like N-word"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#USC professor placed on leave for using Chinese expression that sounds like N-word<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n An award-winning communications professor has been placed on leave after students accused him of harming their mental health \u2014 for using a Chinese expression that sounds similar to the N-word, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Professor Greg Patton was giving a virtual Zoom class to his students at the University of Southern California discussing how different cultures use filler words instead of \u201cums and errs\u201d to take pauses while talking.<\/p>\n

He noted how in China people tend to say \u201cn\u00e8i ge,\u201d the word for \u201cthat,\u201d which he pronounced as \u201cNeh-ga,\u201d video of the class shows.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn China, the common word is \u2018that\u201d \u2014 that, that, that,\u201d he said. \u201cSo in China it might be \u2018n\u00e8i ge\u2019 \u2014 \u2018n\u00e8i ge, n\u00e8i ge, n\u00e8i ge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The lecture sparked a huge backlash from students, some of whom accused him of deliberately pronouncing it to sound like the N-word \u2014 and leading to an apology from the university as it announced Patton had been suspended from the class, the university\u2019s student paper said.<\/p>\n

A coalition of students wrote to college officials saying that Patton \u201coffended all of the Black members of our Class,\u201d according to an email obtained by the National Review.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur mental health has been affected,\u201d the group complained. \u201cIt is an uneasy feeling allowing him to have the power over our grades.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would rather not take his course than to endure the emotional exhaustion of carrying on with an instructor that disregards cultural diversity and sensitivities and by extension creates an unwelcome environment for us Black students,\u201d they reportedly wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn light of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the recent and continued collective protests and social<\/a> awakening across the nation, we cannot let this stand,\u201d the group wrote.<\/p>\n

A rep for the university\u2019s Marshall School of Business told the student paper that Patton was taking \u201ca short term pause\u201d and another professor taking over his course.<\/p>\n

Dean Geoff Garrett also apologized for the professor\u2019s use of a \u201cChinese word that sounds very similar to a vile racial slur in English\u201d that \u201ccaused great pain and upset among students.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am deeply saddened by this disturbing episode that has caused such anguish and trauma,\u201d he wrote in an email to students, according to the National Review report.<\/p>\n

Garrett also confirmed in an email obtained by the student paper, USC Annenberg Media, that Patton would no longer be teaching this semester.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is simply unacceptable for faculty to use words in class that can marginalize, hurt and harm the psychological safety of our students,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

The school\u2019s alumni, however, expressed support \u2014 saying Patton used \u201can accurate rendition of a common Chinese\u201d word, which was \u201can entirely app<\/a>ropriate and quite effective illustration of the use of pauses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patton also insisted there was no \u201cill intent,\u201d saying in an email to students that he \u201cdid not connect this in the moment to any English words and certainly not any racial slur.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, he conceded, \u201cI failed to realize all the many different additional ways that a particular example may be heard across audience members based on their own lived experiences and that it is my fault.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patton has been teaching at USC Marshall for more than 20 years, according to his LinkedIn profile. He is a member of USC US-China Institute, and has taught several courses at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai.<\/p>\n

When reached by email, Patton told the university paper that he did not wish to comment.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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