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if you cant take an order in english at burger king , why are you working there, and we are not talking about immigrant workers
I don't think this family worked there, they were just ordering American food and probably trying to take in American culture by not having to get out of the car to get that food.
How do you know they weren't just visiting our country, perhaps visiting a relative? Do you only vacation in English speaking countries?
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Originally Posted by Grsz11
"No, why would I travel outside of Murica. Murica is such a great country who needs to travel anywhere else!"
Exactly II. It's hard to be a foreigner in a strange land and have to try and garble the language. I've done it. Some of these posters need to expand their horizons a bit.
Yes, because rural Kentucky is such a magnet for foreign tourists...
We don't know where in "rural Kentucky" his happened. I could have been a BK at an Interstate exit. I bet most BKs in rural Kentucky are off an Interstate. All we do know is that the OP enjoys Burger King food.
I'm not sure what the purpose of this thread is. To be fair, there are some Latinos who are here on an agricultural guest worker program. So, just because those people speak no English does not mean that they are illegal border crossers. Not knowing English when you're a recent arrival is understandable. What I see as a problem is when people have lived in the US for years/decades and still don't speak a word of English. Lots of people like that in Miami.
If I was overseas in an area where the native language was the language of business, I wouldn't expect to be able to order in a language the employees aren't likely to understand.
How do the people of various European, Asian, and South American countries stand it when we are there and can't speak their languages ?!?!
Actually, they tolerate it very well, as American tourists and expats act indignant when the natives can't understand American English all too well. Maybe because they are not a-holes.
If I was overseas in an area where the native language was the language of business, I wouldn't expect to be able to order in a language the employees aren't likely to understand.
That is why I would point at pictures as I have done at more than one Vietnamese restaurant.
I'm not sure what the purpose of this thread is. To be fair, there are some Latinos who are here on an agricultural guest worker program. So, just because those people speak no English does not mean that they are illegal border crossers. Not knowing English when you're a recent arrival is understandable. What I see as a problem is when people have lived in the US for years/decades and still don't speak a word of English. Lots of people like that in Miami.
That tends to happen when people migrate to neighborhoods that are full of people who speak their language, it creates a crutch that makes learning another language less of an issue. Though often times their children learn English better than their parents ever do.
Actually, they tolerate it very well, as American tourists and expats act indignant when the natives can't understand American English all too well. Maybe because they are not a-holes.
Mick
Exactly. My daughter lives and works in Asia and says this happens all the time. At times she is ashamed to be an American when she sees how arrogant and rude so many Americans are toward the natives.
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To be fair, there are some Latinos who are here on an agricultural guest worker program. So, just because those people speak no English does not mean that they are illegal border crossers. Not knowing English when you're a recent arrival is understandable. What I see as a problem is when people have lived in the US for years/decades and still don't speak a word of English. Lots of people like that in Miami. 
