Posted on 07/12/2019 6:09:09 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Yo Hablo Espanol pero yo soy verdad wedo...
Jackasses...
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The manager was an asshole. He should have shut up and walked away from the two women. Instead he puffed up his chest and went all latino machismo on them. He should have been relieved of his duties. When the white people don’t come to your restaurant anymore, you will be out of business shortly.
Maybe but the regional version of English has a great deal to do with it too. What I mean is, around here even people that werent German spoke a very Germanisized version of English. They had the accent elements because that’s the only way they had ever heard it. For example, that number that comes after “two” was always “tree” here until recently regardless of background.
IMO, there’s a difference between people speaking a foreign language in public as individuals, and employees speaking a foreign language in front of customers or other employees who don’t understand the language.
Exactly. If he wasn’t talking to them, it doesn’t matter what language he was speaking. For God’s sake, people, there’s NOTHING wrong with speaking more than one language in public.
Hoax
If you are a manager and the first tongue of your employee is non-English and you know that language too, it would be smart for a manager to talk to them in that language if only to prevent miscommunication. Have we not in years gone by been to immigrant owned businesses where the native tongue amongst the staff is not English? (say Italian restaraunts?)
Yeah he got piseed. I would be too. The customers were the initial assholes. He just reciprocated.
Exactly. Imagine going to a Chinese takeout and berating the Manager for talking to the staff in Chinese!
The customers are the ones paying the money that pays for the manager and other employees. By reciprocating, the manager fell for their provocations. Instead of defending his actions, Burger King should have been embarrassed by them and installed a new manager. I have the utmost respect for people who are multi-lingual. However, most of them know that speaking a foreign language in public in a country where English is the customary language will often intimidate those who do not speak or understand the foreign language. Often the intimidation is intentional as I bet it was in that Burger King. Especially in retail, the customer is mostly more right than the employees.
I was in Roatan for some diving last week and switched back and forth between Spanish and English, sometimes in the same conversation, all week. It was actually a lot of fun, reminded me of my high school years in Caracas (back when it was gorgeous and solvent).
well it was a different time, my parents were expected to speak English, while living here in the US.
“I would pull them aside and tell them to knock it off. It’s rude.”
I managed secretarial staff in a local government office. The Filipino babes would jibber-jabber in Tagalog in front of everyone, giggle, and basically offend everyone else. I, too, told them it was rude. I was the one who was disciplined by the Director of H.R. Go figure.
Wait until the Cops get a Warrant and search the Homes of those two Bigots.
When they find a couple of well warn MAGA Hats that will be the end of Trump’s reign of terror I tell ya’.
This Country is so screwed...
My parents spoke to each other in Italian when they didn’t want us to understand. It would have been nice to be bilingual. The younger you are when you learn a second language, the easier it is to learn other languages.
It is an asset to be multilingual.
That’s exactly the reason my Grandmother didn’t want us kids to learn Italian. She said we were Americans so we speak English.
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I grew up with 2nd generation Italians in the early 50s and the ‘rule of thumb’ was Grandmas house was basically Italian, friends house was English only - AT least when us ‘outsiders’ were there.
I am sorry now I didn’t take the time to try and learn some Italian but -as we all know - at 15/16 we knew everything that was needed to be known <: <: <:
I did learn after going in the Navy and starting with Tijuana, that it was a ‘poor person’ who couldn’t order a beer and some ‘instant friend’ in the language of THEIR choice.
If I go into an Italian or Greek or Mexican etc Restaurant, I don’t get bent out of shape if the staff is speaking in the native tongue of the ‘Restaurant’ it adds a little authenticity..
HOWEVER
When going to an Pizza place or such, having the staff speaking Greek (whatever) is a little ‘off key’.
When dealing with the public, one should be able to converse with the customers and in American, if serving Americans, they should speak American English.
In my Devils Advocate role, I like to point out that because (WE) don’t want a certain person or group to live ‘next door’ or in the same neighborhood, don’t be surprised it they move into their ‘OWN” neighborhood and really don’t be surprised when a Muslim or Mexican or Black etc gets elected to the City Council or even Congress. “WE” forced them into their own ‘ghetto’.
(WE is to be taken collectively)
Get on the bus, Gustavo.
Some words were said in anger at a Burger King someplace. That’s it.
And NBC makes sure it’s “National News.”
Gee, I wonder why...
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