Ha Ha!
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If they don’t want to speak English, then they sshould go back to the Phillippines.
What about the environment for the Americans in their hospital?
Every day I hear conversations in Spanish around me which are not just hostile but violent and criminal. Oddly the people speaking such things seem unaware that some people who don't look like them just might understand them.
It's disgusting and vile to have to listen to it. They think the language barrier protects them - which is the real reason they want the right to speak in their language when around the suckers, er, Americans.
It used to be considered rude to speak anything other than English in public in the U.S. - home was a different story.
As for the Spanish and Hindi speakers in that hospital - the same rules should apply to them.
But we all know they won't. They're above ordinary laws and especially laws of decent behavior, doncha know?
These are the same people who would bring harassment complaints to HR if every time they walked into a coffee area all the American English-speaking employees whispered into one another’s ear behind a concealing hand.
Talking in a language that you know no one around you understands has the same effect. People wonder if they are being talked about.
That said, if you are subject to this, I’ve found that the best remedy is to stop and look at each person talking and concentrate as they speak as if you understand what they are talking about.
I’ve found it makes the foreign-speakers so uncomfortable they hush their conversation.
Now if they weren’t bad-mouthing someone or something (America) in that foreign language, why would they need to hush?
I'm all for Englush only but why single out Tagalog? I see no difference between Tagalog, Spanish, and Hindi...all of them should speak English only on the job.
It would be nice if they all wanted to speak English when they are out and about in America (and speak their native languages at home) showing they want to be a partof this country....you know, the one they actually live and work in!