answer:That’s terrible! If this is going to become an HR issue, I’d recommend getting management et al. on your side. I’ve always admired my sister’s response to this issue when it appeared in one of her classes. She (who is of very recent Italian descent) replied, “No, my people enslaved [student of Gallic ancestry]‘s people, and made them dig tunnels through the mountains.” Funny how she doesn’t take issue with her own (rather distant, perhaps) ancestors who sold her more recent ancestors into slavery in the first place.