We're in America... Right?

[aggieb]

i'm sure this is already somewhere on the board, but it's classic.
YouTube - Nail Salon - Anjelah Johnson - Comedy Time

 

[Rudyjohn]

Yes, we're in America (aka the melting pot) you xenophobe.................which means we are free to speak whatever language we wish, even more so when we are doing so as a way to make someone feel welcome!

IMO you can complain about people in America choosing to speak a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th language when you become fluent in the language of every foreign country you visit. Americans in general expect the world to speak fluent English, yet biatch when people in America who speak 2 or more languages are not 100% fluent or choose anything besides the mish-mash that is "american" as their chosen conversational language.

Ciao, off to meet mis amigos for hors'd' oeuvres! Hope they serve the dessert mit schlag! ;-)

ouch.

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[Gypsea]

i'm sure this is already somewhere on the board, but it's classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWrY77o77o

That one was especially for you Skunky! You so pretty.

 

[goofer]

Nothing makes me more uncomfortable than when I am in the nail parlor and the Vietnamese women all look at me and one proclaims something like 'dang bang trang' and they collectively giggle.

I am getting worried about you !!

 

[goofer]

The point...? If the lady and the employee both knew fluent English, why speak Spanish... To speak to each other without letting everyone else know what they were talking about? In essence whispering. In America (and i ass/u/me most other cultures) whispering in most social settings is considered rude. If you and I were to live or visit somewhere the culture is completely different from the USA (or where we were originally from), wouldn't we want to abide by there cultural rules?

I just think you over-reacted. I personally am not offended or paranoid if someone is speaking a foreign language to another person in my presence, especially if I have had no involvment in their conversation when they were speaking English. I think it is a stretch to equate speaking to another person in their native language to "whispering". If anything, listening to another person speaking privately to someone else in whatever language they are speaking would be eavesdropping, which is rude. I understand what you are saying....I just don't agree with it.

 

[Rudyjohn]

I just think you over-reacted. I personally am not offended or paranoid if someone is speaking a foreign language to another person in my presence, especially if I have had no involvment in their conversation when they were speaking English. I think it is a stretch to equate speaking to another person in their native language to "whispering". If anything, listening to another person speaking privately to someone else in whatever language they are speaking would be eavesdropping, which is rude. I understand what you are saying....I just don't agree with it.

I say it's better than those who walk around in public and talk on their cell phones with all their wild hand gesturing, etc. Now that's rude to me!

 

[Will B]

You and Elaine.

HA HA HA!!! I looked for that scene from Seinfeld this afternoon on YouTube when I first saw this, but it's not there...

 

[ShallowsNole]

That is hilarious, as I was thinking of that when I read this thread.

I was in one of the SoWal nail places this April and a lady walked in and suddenly the staff starting talking and laughing and my nail tech, said in English, oh "My, they are going to get in trouble again."

I asked and he said they are always getting in trouble talking about the customers without them knowing it and someone came in and did understand what was being said.

I was thinking about nail salons too, and I can picture this happening to Skunky.

 

[Miss Critter]

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A HA HA!!! I looked for that scene from Seinfeld this afternoon on YouTube when I first saw this, but it's not there...

Ditto. Where's Frank Costanza when you need him?

 

[Minnie]

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Ditto. Where's Frank Costanza when you need him?

Trying to find those old hawaiian shirts.