#1 (permalink) Thu Nov 27, 2008 2:44 am To write one's nationality/ethnicity in the CV if relevant |
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Hello all,
I am new to this forum, and first, may I say that I like this forum already. I've looked through a few threads here and I haven't seen a single troll, it all looks to be very civil!
Now, on to my question. I'm in the process of updating my CV, and I looked at a thread here, called something along the lines of "how to write a curriculum Vitae". There, there was a discussion about including race in one's CV.
While I disagree in principle with putting one's race on one's CV, I can't help but feel that in some cases it could be relevant. Well, I don't really mean race, I mean ethnic background, or the nationality of one's parents (I still haven't found a satisfactory term for it. One's "ancestry"? No, still not good).
Citing my CV as an example might help if I've lost you. I am half-British, half-Japanese. In "languages" under the "skills" subheading, I wrote "English: native, Japanese: native". After that, I imagine it may be suitable to write, in brackets, "I speak to my mother solely in Japanese" as a basis for claiming that my Japanese is native level.
However, this throws up a conundrum. Under "nationality", I write British, because that's what I am, but then, whether or not to write that I am half-Japanese there? I do not have Japanese nationality, but the fact that I am half-Japanese is the single biggest reason why I speak Japanese. I would never dream of writing, for example, "race: mixed race" in a CV, but does what I am writing amount to the same thing? |
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Philp New Member
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