How do you fill about foreigners speaking a different language around you as if you weren't their?

How do you fill about foreigners speaking a different language around you as if you weren't their. For example when your having your nails done? I find it uncomfortable I mean this is American and our language is English.

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I Can Live With It** **As I said on some other question...I don't take stuff personally. And I've been to places where the folks spoke no English...it didn't bother me. And with most of those folks I don't want to carry on an intimate conversation with them--so it's okay.

I imagine if I was from a foreign country and didn't know the language, I'd be happy to talk to those who did. And I have lived in foreign countries where I knew just enough to ask questions and not enough to understand the answers. Haha, I hope those folks didn't feel badly when I talked English around them.

I think what happens is most folks start thinking..."I wonder what they are talking about? I wonder if they are talking about me? " And if they think they ARE talking about them, most folks color that in negative.

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Global culture and languages; Customers comes first; Common sense and customer service In general, I am not uncomfortable when people speak a language other than english. We live in a global society and are surrounded by multi-cultural influences. However, based on your details, you are referring to specific situation wheer you are paying for services and the persons time shoud be dedicated to you, the customer.

I think, it is appropriate to politely point out that they need to concentrate on the task they are being paid for rather than excluding you and "attending" to something they see it as a priority at the moment. I think this applies even if that professional is speaking in the english language to others and making you and the services you are paying for not the focus of their attention! I would inform them that next time, I will take my business to someone who sees me as their priority during the time they are rendering the service!

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Even worse - they assume you speak their language and address you directly I live in South Texas, just outside San Antonio, and work in SA, so you can imagine what gets spoken a lot in a city where the population is something like 62% What irritates me just as much as what you describe (I just tend to ignore those people) are the people who assume that just because I live in this area, I speak Spanish. I don't. The only words I know are taco, enchilada, Cerveza, and Jose Cuervo - the important ones!

Yet, time after time, I'll have someone come up to me in a store - and I don't know why since I'm not wearing a name tag or smock indicating I work there - and start jabbering at me in Spanish. Why should they make that assumption? This is a growing area and a lot of us haven't lived here all that long, although I have lived here for a little over 20 years.

Since this is America, and I speak two other languages, I don't feel I should have to learn Spanish. Here's a novel idea - let them learn English! Since I don't have my nails done, I can't relate to your example, but I know what you mean.

Just call me old-fashioned when it comes to the language thing, but if you're going to live here - you should speak the language. If I go to another country, they aren't going to learn English just for my benefit. G-r-r-r-r!

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It doesn't bug me. If I am somewhere and people are having a conversation that doesn't involve me, then it isn't any of my business what they are saying or in what language they speak. If you don't like it when you get your nails done, let them know it bothers you.

Or go someplace else. The more expensive salons more often employ English speakers. And America is a melting pot.

One of the things that makes it great is the diversity we have here. Perhaps you could ask them to teach you a few phrases in their language. Each time you go try to learn some new words.

Then use them with them. Trying that idea, I can now say thank you in 12 languages :-) .

Just a story My Grand Father came to Canada from the Netherlands with my Grand Mother and my Aunt as poor imigrants. They worked very hard at learning english. Even, not allowing their native language to be spoken in the house.

He felt they were in a new country and needed to learn the customs and language. They went to a fellow Netherlander's house with some Canadian friends for dinner. At one point the host started talking to Grand father in their native language.My Grand Father thought this rude in front of the english speaking friends so always answered back in english.

I do find I think it would be rude in that situation also, though the sad result of his policy was my Father and the rest of our family never learned to speak Netherlander I don't say Dutch since my Grand Father got quite upset when he arrived from the Netherlands and they listed him as Dutch. He thought they were calling him German (Deutche.) I don't think he had anything against the Germans, he was just a proud Netherlander and insisted he was not Dutch, he was a Netherlander.

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I could swear they are speaking another language.

I will try to learn a few phrases but my first language is English.

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