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I stopped there. Seems like he's the A-hole because he thinks that stuff matters.

You shouldn't have stopped, that becomes pertinent in a good way. He chastised the woman in Hindi as her children were a poor reflection on people like him as well. He was most certainly NOT seeking special privileges.

We need a little more of this kind of push back when it is called for.

When I was younger, I went with a brilliant polyglot friend to a middle eastern restaurant. He was Lebanese-Irish by ethnic heritage, so he knew both Gaelic and four different flavors of Arabic.

The restaurant had all sorts of printed Arabic writing on the walls. I kept on asking him what it said. He quietly stated, "Its Koran." I stupidly did NOT take the hint, " and kept at it, "I know but what does it say?"

Eventually, the man behind the counter, as we were paying our bill, suggested that my friend didn't really know Arabic. This set him off, he shouted at them in Arabic "I speak what I want, and when I want, and I will not speak for worms like you."

Afterwards, he told me that he did not want to speak Arabic because his accent would reveal where he had been in Lebanon (he had been VP of the Catholic University of Lebanon), and that could be problematic. Plus, they had the audacity to charge extra for the pita bread and the portion sizes were insufficient. He has since passed away, and the world is worse for it.