>...and routinely spent the entire day talking together in Chinese and excluding me from like regular work convos high impact projects and general progress early in my career.
Outside the US, I've seen companies with a diverse work force implement "english only" policies in the office.
It’s not that it’s racist to bring it up, it’s that if your an IC eng experiencing this your manager, skip level and 2x skip are likely in on the whole race based fiefdom thing and the next person to talk to is a senior director/VP who is a very important person that you rarely see and never talk with.
Outside the US, I've seen companies with a diverse work force implement "english only" policies in the office.