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?
Exactly!!