thevikingwoman:
annavoigmarchen:
geekandmisandry:
learninglinguist:
traditionallifetraditionalwife:
azraelabyss:
endangered-justice-seeker:
Minding one’s own business needs to be a course in college…
This makes me sad. I grew up in a diverse area near the westcoast and I love casually hearing other languages. It makes me feel closer to the world and happy that they’re free to speak whatever language they want. This might sound weird, but whenever I hear them, it reminds me that strangers are real people with their own life and history. It’s a fact we easily forget. Language is such a huge part of who we are. I can’t imagine being forced to deny a part of my identity. To be told that I need to squish myself into their boxes or I’ll become the nail that needs to be hammered down. I hate this and I am so sorry this is happening to you.
If you move to an English speaking country, speak English, or better yet go back to the country that speaks your language and no one will say shit to you 🙆🏻♀️ the complete entitlement from immigrants when the loacals ask them to assimilate to their country. I wouldn’t go to Korea and cry like a baby because they told me to stop speaking English. Its expected I speak Korean. You people need to grow up .
While the United States is a predominantly English-speaking society, there is actually no official language. What would you say someone speaking an indigenous language? Also, the person who wrote these tweets speaks English? She was speaking Korean over the phone to her cousin in Korea. Do you expect her to speak in English to someone who might not speak it rather than a shared one because she’s in a public space in an “English speaking country”? Do you believe that everyone sharing a public space with you owes you something?
There’s a big difference between assimilation and integration and I don’t know how to tell you that assimilation is not a desirable thing.
Literally how the fuck are you going to call the victim entitled? They were having a private conversation and some fucking rando told her what language she could be speaking in a private fucking conversation that didn’t involve her at all. Gtfo.
Americans literally go to other countries and expect that everyone around them should know how to speak English. Really. I’ve seen americans completely and utterly lost in Brazil because our population mostly doesn’t speak English, and the fuckers didn’t even know a single word in portuguese. Or worse, they tried spanish, and while that’s valid cause hey, it’s closer to portuguese, it’s fucking rude to say that we speak spanish cause we fucking don’t. Wanna talk about research and speaking another country’s language before going there? Make sure you fucking do that before leaving your stupid ass country, bitch. Because my english might not be perfect, but I got a 107/120 in my toelf and moved to Canada. I know 2 languages fluently e a lil bit of a 3rd, looking forward to learn a 4th. What can you say about yourself, huh?
Sorry for the politics, but I’ve seen various variations of this type of incident come across my dash and I need to say this.
This is not about speaking English. This is about racism.
I’m a white woman, with two white kids, and I’m an immigrant. I often speak my native language ( Danish) to my children.
Now, I live on the West Coast, in an area with lots of immigrants and that might play a part, but all I’ve ever heard when doing this has been variations of “what language is that?” “That is so cool” “making sure your children are bilingual are such a gift to them”
Everyone arguing that you should speak English in the US can delude themselves all they want, but they don’t really care if someone speaks English.
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