This guy has the right idea. One has the right to refuse service for many reasons, so when someone comes up not speaking English, we bend for themso there's no incentive for them to learn our national language.
I'm an immigrant and I learned English and honestly, it's a hell of a lot more useful than Hindi around the world and inside the US.
In Europe, they don't buckle as much to this. They resist it. Germany, for instance, will not buckle to the Russians and Turks coming in, although they're more than happy to grant them residency and welfare.
So Gino's take is that you can't say what you want, you can't point directly to what you want, you might get the wrong shit.
I know hispanics come to my pharmacy not speaking any English, popping zits, picking their noses, expecting US to speak to them in Spanish, no attempt at trying to speak English via a Spanish-English translator. If I ever see one, right away I'll be happy to help the fuck, but it hasn't happened once.
I'm an immigrant and I learned English and honestly, it's a hell of a lot more useful than Hindi around the world and inside the US.
In Europe, they don't buckle as much to this. They resist it. Germany, for instance, will not buckle to the Russians and Turks coming in, although they're more than happy to grant them residency and welfare.
So Gino's take is that you can't say what you want, you can't point directly to what you want, you might get the wrong shit.
I know hispanics come to my pharmacy not speaking any English, popping zits, picking their noses, expecting US to speak to them in Spanish, no attempt at trying to speak English via a Spanish-English translator. If I ever see one, right away I'll be happy to help the fuck, but it hasn't happened once.