Americans get pissed at the mere thought of expanding our language horizons. It's not just the rednecks either.
Everytime I visit, I'm always very very surprised at how many languages Europeans speak. Even Latin Americans know at the very least, a little bit of English. A lot speak the language pretty well.
We've gained this world wide reputation of being ignorant dumbasses who are too stupid to learn other languages. We can start with picking up Spanish, a European language that's widely spoken here in America by 'outsiders' who can't freely speak it without getting criticism.
At my job we have lots of Asians and they're always either speaking Mandarin or Tagalog, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest, yet people always snark at me about how they hate it.
Learn to speak another language clowns.
Everytime I visit, I'm always very very surprised at how many languages Europeans speak. Even Latin Americans know at the very least, a little bit of English. A lot speak the language pretty well.
We've gained this world wide reputation of being ignorant dumbasses who are too stupid to learn other languages. We can start with picking up Spanish, a European language that's widely spoken here in America by 'outsiders' who can't freely speak it without getting criticism.
At my job we have lots of Asians and they're always either speaking Mandarin or Tagalog, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest, yet people always snark at me about how they hate it.
Learn to speak another language clowns.