Censorship

Not that I don't have confidence of Japanese people to read English, but this post is not going to have a Japanese translation. Even so, I'm choosing my words carefully and trying to be as obtuse as possible.

A while ago, I wrote an article about one of my days, where I met some people. I wrote about how they do not have citizenship of a certain country. I then wrote something about pieces of paper you need to enter a country and how they have time limits. Then I wrote about the need to teach a certain language to these people because until now they have not spoken the language of certain country until now.

Today, I was told by my supervisor to edit that part of the article. Word had gotten around. People were talking.

I agreed, thinking I had violated student-teacher confidentiality and individual privacy. So I got rid of the section about pieces of paper and time limits, added more praise words to those teaching a certain language, and showed the new paragraph to my supervisor.

No good.

Why?

Because I had mentioned their nationality.

I need opinions, please.

If, say, in your home country of Canada, the States, or Britain or Australia or wherever, you write that a Spanish child is enrolled and requires ESL classes, is that a violation of privacy and work confidentiality because you mentioned the student's nationality?

The original paragraph has been deleted and I'm not telling you what article it was in. Yes, I do have an archived copy of the original.

I thought I was helping Japan progress by showing off a place where students of different nationalities all study together at a typical Japanese school, showing how everything is all nice and happy. Or, should I restore the paragraph and just remove their specific nationalities and replace it with "various nationalities"?