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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?
Nope. It can be kind of fun if it's a language I kind of know, I try to translate.
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?
Nope. Why? Should it?
Everywhere I go, I hear French, Russian, Farsi, Tagalog, Chinese....you name it.
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?
Only if I think they might be saying, "Kill the white person." LOL
My husband and I recently went on vacation in the Vegas area and went to Hoover Dam and by the end of the day we were joking about the fact that we had heard our language very little that day.
In our own county on a trip to our health club I can hear many different languages and many accents before getting home. I was bothered one day when I worked, by a person who spoke another language coming to my desk and demanding that I find him someone who spoke Spanish. I could see him asking for that but since this is America, I didn't feel he had a right to demand it very loudly.
We came to the point that we had to learn to speak Spanish to control the children whose parents brought them into our place and just let them "go wild." They could mess up enough stuff in a few minutes for us to have to straighten up for the rest of the day.
If you think grocery stores and fast food joints are hot beds of non-english speakers just try some of our hospitals and medical care facillities. In the Washington DC area there are a lot of nurses and physicians assistants from either the Phillipines or The Carribean or West Africa (Ghana or Nigeria). At my Dialysis Clinic the Clinic the manager is Fillipino, as are the charge nurses, and 3/4 of the Dialysis technicians the others are 1 Puerto Rican, 1 Chinese, 2 Ghanians and a Nicaraguan. Not a single member of the staff is American. A member of the DC city council (Marion Barry) who was hospitalized for kidney failure and received a kidney transplant actually complained to the management of the Washington Hospital Center (The regional transpalnt hospital) that none of his nurses was a person born in the Distric but were all Fillipinos! Kinda upset our Fillipino community here.
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?
Especially when they all pull out their food stamp cards.
Twice in Miami, I was refused service because I didn't speak Spanish.
I got pretty upset then.
A few years back we went to Sea World. I noticed an employee guide and asked her where the rest room was. She could not understand me enough to answer. And don't ask a maid anything in a hotel anymore. They don't have a clue what you are saying.
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Does it upset you when you are in a public place and English is not spoken?
