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No, but it bothers me that our government bends over to facilitate a certain group. In public I don't care. I speak Thai to my wife when I want the conversation to be semi-private. Public places people are free to speak what ever language they like.
This. Speaking another language, especially one that's not well known in your area, is like a real-life superpower. OP is just jealous.
My neighborhood Walmart is like that. I refuse to shop there. The people that refuse to speak English are often uneducated and low class welfare grubbing creeps.
I can drive to 2 Walmarts in 5-10 minutes. I often conclude I am the only person in the store, including employees, born in the U.S. I hear Spanish, Polish, Russian and Hindi with a smattering of Korean- one great melting pot.
Way back when my grandma and father used to complain about all the Italians, Greeks , Polish and more who refused to speak English. A few generations later and their descendents probably complain about the next wave of immigration.
I can drive to 2 Walmarts in 5-10 minutes. I often conclude I am the only person in the store, including employees, born in the U.S. I hear Spanish, Polish, Russian and Hindi with a smattering of Korean- one great melting pot.
Way back when my grandma and father used to complain about all the Italians, Greeks , Polish and more who refused to speak English. A few generations later and their descendents probably complain about the next wave of immigration.
It's not the fact that these people are speaking their native language in private that is bothersome - it is that it is done in the public spaces with no regard to assimilate to the language of the land.
I have been to several places this evening (Whole Foods, mall, and Target) and it seemed like few people there were speaking English - people were speaking in languages other than English. Does going into a public place and hearing a lack of English, especially in a nonethnic neighborhood, bother you?
No. My problem is people speaking loudly on cell phones right next to me. I don't care what language it is. It's very annoying lol
Nope I am pretty much hard of hearing so I draw on napkins to English speaking people so long as they are pretty. And some of them as it turns out speak in French Canadian but they are still pretty too. Then of course I know universal hand sign.
It's not the fact that these people are speaking their native language in private that is bothersome - it is that it is done in the public spaces with no regard to assimilate to the language of the land.
Well,, I live in the US where there is no language of the land. So it doesn't bother me.
Well, that's a trait of people who live in your neighborhood more than it is about the language they speak. A little education and hard work wouldn't hurt you guys. Give it a try.
In southern Calif, you could easily live in a decent area, but an immigrant cesspool could be just a few blocks away or the next city over. It's just the way that things are.
I have been to several places this evening (Whole Foods, mall, and Target)
Does going into a public place and hearing a lack of English, especially in a nonethnic neighborhood, bother you?
Aren't we Fancy Schmancy.
I like to shop at open markets and the dollar store
I speak a foreign language (actually two three if you include English
so I rather enjoy sitting and listening to passerbys speak in a different tongue while I fantasize
being in a Belgium market eating chocolate and sipping cherry beer - Oh wait, that's an old
Calgon commercial
No, it does not bother me. But I wouldn't be caught dead at a mall
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OP is just jealous.
three if you include English
