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Originally Posted by dlish
im curious what TFPers think of Non english speakers speaking in their mother tongue in public in a western country....
Do 'westerners' find it rude/insulting/racist if someone was speaking to someone else in their own language?....
if you are insulted, why would you be insulted?....are people really racist deep down? or is it the fear of the unknown?
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It only bothers me if I feel like I am being purposely excluded. If I'm at a bar, restaurant, grocery, etc. and people speak other than English, I really just don't care.
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Originally Posted by snowy
I love hearing people speak a language besides English in public. I love playing a guessing game of what language they're speaking. I have spent a considerable amount of time on a university campus with a healthy international student population. It's really not uncommon to hear people speaking a foreign language at various places around my town, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest.....
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I took two semesters of Russian in college and fifteen years later can slowly and haltingly read Russian. And Italian. I can tell...sort of... what's going on in these languages, when I'm on the fringe of a conversation, even though I can't converse. I'm working on Swedish, which is my Sig other's native language.
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Originally Posted by dlish
i feel this way everytime roachboy decides to post anything.
makes me feel about |<-->| this big. makes me wonder if im the only dumb one around here.
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Well, that IS interesting. I just see naked turgid obfuscation instead of the emperor's new clothes.
Lindy