Current Events > Why do americans ask people to speak English on Facebook?

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My first language is french. I tagged a friend and said something to him in French on Facebook and a random american told me "this is america, speak English". Some spanish dude started talking in spanish to make fun of him. I just had to click a button to translate and we both talked to each other in our first language.

This is not the 1st time I have seen it happen and it seems only people from U.S.A do that.

What's up with that ethnocentrism?

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Boomers are a scourge

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Broadly speaking, people are afraid of what they dont understand. Speaking (or typing) in a language someone doesnt understand automatically puts them on the defensive, and they reply with "Speak English" both trying to assert their dominance and to try to gain control of the conversation.

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Sabram posted...

Broadly speaking, people are afraid of what they dont understand. Speaking (or typing) in a language someone doesnt understand automatically puts them on the defensive, and they reply with "Speak English" both trying to assert their dominance and to try to gain control of the conversation.

This. I was like this in high school. Im glad I grew out of that mentality.

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Conservatives are pretty much dumb by default, and American conservatives are insanely proud of how dumb they are for some reason.

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I am embarrassed by person described in OP.

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I find if funny and sad that there are people that get mad when they hear a foreign language spoken. Do you eavesdrop on every English conversation? Why does it unnerve you to hear a language you don't know spoken by strangers who aren't talking to you?

A certain banned former mod would consider a foreign language reason enough to call the cops.

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Sabram posted...

Broadly speaking, people are afraid of what they dont understand. Speaking (or typing) in a language someone doesnt understand automatically puts them on the defensive, and they reply with "Speak English" both trying to assert their dominance and to try to gain control of the conversation.

I mean... it's weird. It was just a random shit I tagged my friend on. I don't give a fuck if people talk in English in a french post and most people don't seem to care either.

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All cultures have their own racism/xenophobia.

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Hexenherz posted...

I am embarrassed by person described in OP.

Don't worry. I know that not all americans are M'uricans. But it seems that this behavior always come from someone born in U.S.A

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epik_fail1 posted...

Don't worry. I know that not all americans are M'uricans. But it seems that this behavior always come from someone born in U.S.A

We just have a really stupid "America is the World" mentality a lot of times.

I was in Germany once and this group of high school kids was walking up the hill with a big American flag and I wanted to just tell them to put that shit away.

My mom and her husband are like this too. I heard it every damn day - "Why are they speaking Spanish at this public library, they need to learn English", and shit like that.

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