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I saw a similar thing once it was glorious (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 122 points 6 months ago (27 children)

Why are burgerlanders so offended/afraid of people not speaking the only language they know?

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  • [–] 83 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Because they usually talk shit toward people who don't speak English, so they assume everyone around them speaking a different language is doing the same.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    For the country that invented the "american exceptionalism" that's some big insecurity issue right there, huh?

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I used to work in a spa, doing nails, and the amount of times I heard white women tell me in ‘hushed’ tones that they liked coming to a place where the workers spoke English because they ‘couldn’t tell if the girls working at those other places were talking about them when they spoke another language’ was disgusting.

    American ‘exceptionalism’ is anything but.

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  • [–] 45 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It’s racism.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Its racism, when people message me online and I am not 100% who it is or if it is weird, I response in my second language. If the person knows me, they respond in English and we have no problem. Scammers never reply to that language. But American's get racist everytime because it looks close enough to Spanish. They are straight out of the idiot handbook; "Speak American", "Me only habla American", and sometimes it comes with slurs. Like fuck me for speaking a romance language.

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago

    Poor emotional regulation.

    Someone speaking another language makes them afraid (maybe they're talking about me) or feel bad (I only know one language am I stupid?). Getting angry at the other person is easier on the ego than healthier options.

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  • [+] 27 points 6 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Never assume that just because somebody is a member of a minority they're not prejudiced assholes.

    It's exactly because we're all humans that assholes are equally distributed across all groups defined by things other than behavior and political beliefs - no such group is inherently composed of better or worse individuals than other groups.

    People in groups being oppressed are less likely to behave as assholes simply because the assholes in those groups fear reprisals far more than the assholes in the dominant groups and in my experience plenty of people who behave meekly because of being part of an oppressed group will start behaving as assholes if given power and immunity to reprisals.

    This is how you end up with phenomenons like, for example, anti-Transsexual Feminists.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    For avoidance of doubt my point is in no way a criticism of mankind:

    • A % are always assholes.
    • Also a % are always genuinely good people.
    • The bulk of people are in the middle and kinda go with the cultural zeitgeist.

    As far as I can tell, there are no more of the first kind than the second, though it's my impression that the third kind, in the middle, are at times in average more pro-social or more anti-social depending on the predominant culture of a place and time.

    In the current Greed Is Good environment dominant in the West I would say that the bulk of people who aren't internally driven towards being a good person or being a selfish asshole tend toward "What's in it for me" anti-social behavior if only because that attracts more rewards and less social pushback, though as I said and in my experience of living in a couple of countries, local culture also has a big say in that.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    For an unremarkable and mediocre person, english might be the only skill they have which allows them to feel superior to others. They're pretty desperate to make everyone else aware of that at every opportunity.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Racism is definitely one reason, but you have to also put into perspective how big the united states is and what it's like to be around almost exclusively people speaking your language.

    A quick Google (I'm not verifying the source I don't care that much) says 75% of the US speaks English as their primary language. If you removed the Spanish speakers, it would be over 90%.

    Imagine if every country around you only spoke one language, that's sort of what it's like with the states. You're much less likely to get people from nearby areas who just speak a different language, and so these people aren't used to hearing it. We just aren't close to a diverse set of languages.

    That said, there's no reason for them to have this strange paranoia that they're being made fun of in another language (they probably are, since they're losers, to be fair). Nor does it make sense for them to react with such xenophobia.

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