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""Don't you know it's rude to insist on eavesdropping on every conversation near you?"

I hardly think it is eavesdropping when you can't hear yourself think for their babbling. And more and more often, regular Americans, you know, the ones who speak the language, have to put up with foreigners with every accent imaginable to do business. If they have no command of the language then they need to do jobs in which they have no need to interact, if they are even here legally, and if they're not, they should be sent back where they came from. It is supposed to be a free country after all. Nobody is preventing them from learning English. And nobody should be forcing Americans to deal with their language. This has to be the only country on earth that sells out its own citizens to accommodate everybody else.

I hardly think it is eavesdropping when you can't hear yourself think for their babbling.

If you cannot hear yourself think, it's probably not a hearing problem.

And more and more often, regular Americans, you know, the ones who speak the language, have to put up with foreigners with every accent imaginable to do business. If they have no command of the language then they need to do jobs in which they have no need to interact, if they are even here legally, and if they're not, they should be sent back where they came from.

Why, thank you for throwing my great-grandfather out of the country when he got off the boat at Ellis Island.

It is supposed to be a free country after all.

Funny that you don't recognize that.

Nobody is preventing them from learning English.

And accented English is a phase of learning English. If you don't like it, then feel free to do business elsewhere.

And nobody should be forcing Americans to deal with their language.

For official paperwork: agreed. If a business owner wants to capture more business from non-English speakers, or those who have limited proficiency in English, that's THEIR business, not yours.

Sweden is another example. The thing you mentioned about babbling is so true. I have had to put up with it for years now and I really hate to work in my office. They do not even quiet down during company meetings or even group meeting or group lunches. Just go on babbling the whole day long. The fact that the office has very poor acustics doesn't make the situation any better. I feel very isolated and alienated.
Really, I do not have so much trouble with the mexicans. Here it is mainly the poeple from China that is the culprits.