[an orange character is speaking, smugly]
I vote far right because I hate immigrants who come to our country and do not adopt its culture
[from their brain, a thought bubble emerges which shows a sunny thai landscape, in which orange is chilling on a deck chair by the sea, drinking coconut juice and smiling, clearly enjoying life]
I dream of having enough money to move/retire to Thailand and never learn the language or adopt the culture
I believe it.
I worked with an Englishman who has lived in the Netherlands for more than 20 years without learning Dutch.
We had a work trip to Madrid, and he went the weekend beforehand for a short vacation. I ran into him on Sunday night and asked him how it went. He said it was terrible, because he’s a vegetarian and couldn’t eat anything because nobody spoke English. He didn’t know what to order or how to ask if something was vegetarian. He was outraged that nobody spoke English. In Madrid. The capital of Spain. 🙈
Plenty of people speak English in Madrid. They were probably fucking with him because he’s British and was likely rude like the typical British tourist. If he just asked “Habla usted ingles?” Plenty of people would accommodate, especially hospitality staff.
That was the advice I got when I went to Europe.
Learn how to say four things “Hello”, “Do you speak English?”, “Sorry” and “Thank you” and most people will do their best to work with you.
I am never sure since I am American so know lots of Spanish from osmosis. But of course in any large European city there will be plenty of people who know enough English to help out. So yeah, he probably approached every interaction with stereotypical British arrogance and annoyed the people who would have been happy to help him otherwise. 🙈
Personally I’d just point to myself and say “No Hablo Espanol” my pronunciation is better than my spelling. Though I don’t anyone would look at my pasty ass and assume I know any language outside of english and even then that’s debatable.
Anywhere else I’d understand the outrage. But Dutch isn’t a real language.
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On behalf of the rest of the country that has more brain cells than a used tea bag, we’d like to issue an apology to Madrid, the Netherlands, and yourself for his ignorance.
There’s some of us here who are trying their best to educate these people but it feels like trying to hold water in a sieve.
They knew, he just made it too easy from the sounds of it 😂