Two Burger King customers tell Spanish-speaking manager to 'go back to Mexico'

NBC News ^ | July 10, 2019 | Hasley Pitman

[combat_boots]

Have any great dialog for this? In German. Or Gaelic.

[ml/nj]

My legal immigrant grandparents spoke their native tongue in public.

But not on stage!

When people are working here in the US they should be speaking ENGLISH, except if a customer initiates a conversation in another language.

I remember being in Israel at a hotel waiting to check in and two hotel employees were conversing in Russian. That's just wrong. They should have been speaking Hebrew (which I don't really understand, so that's not my issue) or retired to some place where customers could not hear them.

ML/NJ

[SMGFan]

Hm, that is a new term to me.

[Rebelbase]

IIRC, some Dbag chick actress or activist made fun of Melania Trump’s accent once. Dumb butch had no idea FLOTUS speaks several languages.

[central_va]

Why do Hispanics born is the USA still have accent when they speak English? I don’t get that. My fathers parents did not speak English and he had no “old country” accent.

[jimmango]

Interesting. All of my grandparents were born in Italy. I think part of the difference was their age when they came here. Mom's parents were adults, and dad's were children. I never knew my grandfathers, but I never heard my maternal grandmother speak English, and I never heard my paternal grandmother speak Italian. Mom grew up speaking Italian at home, Dad did not (although I think he understood it).

I once asked my mom why she never taught us to speak Italian. She said that dad did not want her to, we lived in America, and did not need to speak Italian. The funny thing is that when I was a teenager, dad told me I should learn Spanish (grew up in San Antonio)!

[lodi90]

There have always been Puerto Ricans in the I-4 corridor and lots of Hispanics in South Florida. What’s new is that they are filling in the rest of the state. Small towns in the interior and West side of Jacksonville for example. Also a lot Mexicans in the Orlando area now.

[reed13k]

Because in the home environment they are raised on Spanish as their first language and hear only that for the most part. As a result the early tongue/mouth training results in an accent.

My oldest had a slight issue because she was home with her mom speaking Japanese most of the day and only had English from me during the evening. Her first 2 weeks at pre-school were a major shock. In the end everything turned out ok and she has no accent in English (minor accent in Japanese I’m told) and is fluent in both languages.

With some languages it’s more difficult to eliminate the accent than others due to the mouth/tongue formations that are in muscle memory. I would guess your dad had an accent early in childhood that he overcame as he grew up with his friends...probably didn’t even have a memory of it.

My daughter remembers the shock of not being able to communicate that first day at school, but beyond that very little else. The main reason we sent her to preschool was to ensure she had enough time to develop her English since I was at work most of the day.

[CodeToad]

Then he should know to speak English.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Yeah I agree with you. Where I grew up many of my friends were second generation Italian. Their parents and grandparents walked around the neighborhood speaking Italian to each other all the time.

This manager apparently does speak English, and did address them in English when they spoke.

[Chicory]

These ***ignorant*** women are just providing tar for the Democrat’s brush....

[ronniesgal]

english was a second language in my family for everybody but me.
I’m sure my folks spoke their native tongue when out in public, but i’m also sure my dad spoke english when he was at work. Big diff.

[shanover]

Get used to these stories as the a-hole media and politicians stir the pot. In reality most Americans are still quite civil under most circumstances and demographics.

[redcatcherb412]

The women and those with the same views would never make it in the border states. They would go apoplectic seeing a Mercado sign instead of Walmart and could never step foot in most restaurants. Melting pot means just that. 65 years living in NM as a german immigrant and i’ve never had a problem communicating much less going ballistic because I hear other languages being spoken. I was multi lingual as a kid till I ended up immersed in english and eventually forgot german entirely.

[gnarledmaw]

Thats unfortunate, someone should have. My family spoke its native language for 150ish years after arriving here but werent rude enough to do so in public.

[sheana]

At one time I was the bar manager for one of our local country clubs. The country club manager hired a bunch of Salvadoran waiters. They would often resort to Spanish while talking to each other in public. I would pull them aside and tell them to knock it off. It’s rude.

[Rannug]

I went to school in Tavares in ‘62-3. Talk about times a changing.

[eclecticEel]

With only 22k views, it’s ~1% of the way to being called viral.

[ssfromla]

Doesn't matter if they're prejudiced. Ricardo should be forced to make the cake hamburger.

:)

[gnarledmaw]

I recently sat down next to a couple in a restaurant and heard them speaking German. I wasn’t intending to eavesdrop but they were right next to me. It was the most bizarre version I had ever heard. I had to eventually ask where they were from. They were from Koln and others must have questioned them in the past because they offered that they were intentionally speaking a mixture of various high and low dialects because they knew that otherwise too many in this area would understand too well. From what I could tell it sounded like a normal vacation related discussion, its odd that they felt the need to keep it so secret yet felt the need to talk in public where they knew there were ears.