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To: mdittmar

Garden variety rudeness is not what I’m concerned about. Loss of basic civility is.

Your co-workers behavior may be rudeness or it may not. Have you ever lived outside your country for an extended period. What language do you guess you’d be talking to your fellow Americans in under those circumstances? I’ve found myself in this situation many times, among English Speakers and among French speakers. I can tell you that you will (despite your best efforts) tend to switch to your native tongue again and again. It is just hard-wired in your brain.


31 posted on 07/11/2007 8:23:52 PM PDT by TavoNYC
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To: TavoNYC

There is a difference between friends/family communicating in another language and snobbery. It really irritates me to enter an area where English is being spoken and people start to speak in a different. IMO, in public the language of choice should be what the majority speaks, if possible.


44 posted on 07/11/2007 8:31:18 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: TavoNYC

You want to see rude go to Chinatown and be anything but Chinese.

Even my Filipino freind gets the cold shoulder when trying to shop there.


47 posted on 07/11/2007 8:33:49 PM PDT by Global2010 ( Once I went Nanny Goat at the Ocean and then a Rip Tide hit me.)
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To: TavoNYC

I would say your view is tainted by being in France. When I was in the Air Force I was stationed overseas quite a bit (mostly in Germany). Me and my friends always tried our best to speak the native language off base. Not only did this let us get some fluency in the language we got a much better reception from the locals when we tried to speak their language. I mention this because this worked in Germany, Italy, and Spain. But not in France, my experience in France is that the locals would rather you speak a foreign language than “Pretend” as it was described to me, to speak French.


110 posted on 07/11/2007 9:40:12 PM PDT by Inverse
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To: TavoNYC
I can tell you that you will (despite your best efforts) tend to switch to your native tongue again and again. It is just hard-wired in your brain.

Not into my brain, it isn't. Despite your claim to the "reasonable view", you seem to have issues.
Perhaps there is food for thought for you there, if you wish to see it.

171 posted on 07/11/2007 11:00:02 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: TavoNYC

Have you ever lived outside your country for an extended period.”

You’re a legal citizen of the USA,but consider yourself on an extended leave of absence from Mexico and you want dual citizenship because when you become an American (USA) citizen you can’t buy property in Mexico.


196 posted on 07/12/2007 12:11:35 AM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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