 Self-deselection from careers of choice, not having access to the dominant language of English, which was the main valued language in the employment sector, forced the government school participants to deselect themselves from careers of choice. We have this case of a government school participant, let's call him Akil, and he was presented to me as one of the very good students in the class, a very bright person who wanted to take up a career in banking rather than going back to his father's business of dry cleaning. And once he had talked about his passion of joining the banking sector, this is what he said. He said, we cannot get a job like this without English. He meant, this we know, we have to save our respect face or do we not? For our self-respect, we will not be able to go just like that. We will not have the courage to go. We know nothing. We do not have the courage to go in the bank. And I said, but you won't know, we are talking about only language here. What I meant was, you will have the qualification once you finish your education. And that's when you want to go to the bank. But he said, language difference is there. Language makes a huge difference. When we do not know the language, why should we go into it? So by the end of the interview, he has almost thought about not joining it. And you can think about the sense of fear, which is rightly or wrongly possesses him about regarding his lack of English language proficiency. Now, when we go to the banks, we all know that the people sitting at the counters are not always using English language. They talk to each other very much in Urdu, but the feeling that they might know English and they are using English, of course, in the documentation scares this child. And he deselects himself from the career that he would like to join otherwise. So this is the symbolic power of language that it forces a huge majority from deselecting themselves in terms of careers. And this, again, serves the power of the elite because then these positions are left open to the selected few and they can access them. So interesting thing to note over here is how Akil dismisses all knowledge. Just because he is shamed because of his poor English language proficiency. So this, again, you would see very interestingly matches with the ideologies at work, which somehow consolidate the concept of English language, knowing it with a sense that the person who knows it also has a knowledge base. And of course, this serves the interests of the elite. So the lesser the competition, the better it is. Another student who also talks about how he would be in a problem when presentations will have to be made at the workplace, and he says, I am Urdu medium, so I am like lesser. And interestingly, we are talking about, again, the student is from the National College of Arts, and he is a very good person, and he is very talented in terms of his skills. But when it comes to presenting his work, he asks other people to present his work, rather than he himself standing up and explaining it to the audience, just because it has to be done in English language in that scenario. You have another case of this government school participant who now is thinking about joining a company. It's a small job. It's not a big deal. And he prepares for this interview. And in this interview, which he worries will be in English, he sits down with his friend, and he learns a few sentences that he might use them. But after taking the interview of saying a few lines, the interview had to be conducted in Urdu, but he was so ashamed of it that he could not negotiate his salary. And now two months into the job, he did not know what his salary would be. So again, there is this girl who misses out on the opportunity of joining computer classes, which he only thinks might be in English language. We all know most of the classes and education is in Urdu, but we only code switched to English. But this fear of only a few words, it was too much for her to join the computer classes, which were offered free of cost by her institution. So this is what we're talking about. These are the students who choose back seats in the class and then back seats also in their offices, avoiding front desk positions.