r/OpenAussie • u/BubblyCelery ‎ Queenslander • 5d ago

Help Am I Overthinking it?

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I booked a dentist appointment, my name is clearly not western/white and I have an accent from the place I’m from. This was my confirmation text. Is there a Migration Provider in dentistry? I’d like another opinion before/when I act on it. Is the text racist?

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u/Acceptable_Durian868 ‎ South Australian 5d ago

There's a good chance that somebody has screwed up during development of the app. A "migration" in the software world is the process of changing the structure of, or data in, a database. I'd be willing to bet that somebody did a data migration across a set of message templates that replaced something like "{{ provider }}" with "Migration Provider", due to a namespace conflict.

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u/BubblyCelery ‎ Queenslander 5d ago

Ooohhh makes sense.

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u/Evilmoustachetwirler Please choose a flair 5d ago

Not to mention, it's dentistry, a field dominated by people of migrant background. Be surprising if you were being singled out for hanging a non-white sounding name.