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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.

For someone as paranoid and worried about people making fun of me behind my back as I am I was startled I discover other white people I knew objected to people speaking their native language in the street here in the U.K. because “they’re probably talking shit about me”

I remember going “but if you were in Spain with your family and walking down the street talking English with your family would you think that was wrong?”

“No”

“Then why is it wrong for them to speak their language?”

“Because I know they’re just talking shit about me!”

And how arrogant is that? Like paranoid “everyone secretly hates me” me thinks that’s arrogant and unnecessarily paranoid and also deeply racist

And it confused me as well because I never ever assumed people were speaking a different language to make fun of me specifically.

But yeah, attacking people for speaking a different language than English is atrocious

And even if they were talking shit about you, who gives a shit? Suck it up, Buttercup. Make like every fat kid in high school had to and keep walking.

As a Brit currently living in a country in Asia, the disparity between ‘immigrants’ and ‘expats’ is weird. Like, there are people I know back home who think people coming to England as refugees without a choice shouldn’t be allowed in. That immigrants should learn English straight away, and even when they haven’t or have really good jobs they’re still job thieves. My friends who escaped religious persecution in Iran, spend their whole lives helping other people and despite their age work as doctors, shouldn’t be allowed in. The Syrian family I used to work with, who has three children, one permanently disabled, shouldn’t be allowed in. 

But me going to another country to work, while not speaking the language? Not even as an economic migrant, just because I wanted to get paid and travel? Perfectly fine, nothing wrong with that. They genuinely do not see their hypocrisy.

And for the record, everyone here has been welcoming and helpful, despite me ‘stealing their jobs’ (and houses? Is that a thing people complain about too?) and ‘not even bothering to learn the language’.