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CX has an internal level of racism, just look at the outport staff including engineering staff to a certain extent, outport based cabin crew they're all western - yea right.
I don't see the reciprocal in Asia with western carriers.
You certainly can't put it down to purely a language requirement, westerners are know to speak other languages.
Everyone knows CX wants to localize at every opportunity if they want to then so be it, It's not a western airline so why should westerners care.