cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/3497784

Example: several of my former coworkers are from Mexico, Peru and Argentina, meaning they share Spanish as a common language.

I used to practice Spanish with them, but my last charge (like a ward’s manager) would yell at us to stop it, use English only. She would get very angry really fast if she heard anything in a language she didn’t understand.

I find it stupid, because some of them would use Spanish to better explain to the new nurses how to do certain procedures, but maybe I’m missing something?

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    71·
    3 days ago

    I mean, foreign languages can and sometimes are used to talk shit about people without them knowing. Speaking English in a non-English place is rude for that reason as well, to make it less bait-y.

    If even brief, well-explained excursions into Spanish are punished, that’s ideology or personal paranoia, though.

    • whiskers165 [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      62·
      3 days ago

      I don’t understand why English speaker’s imaginary fears of being “shit talked” outweigh the comfort of a Spanish speaker using their mother tongue? I don’t understand how English speakers having anxiety translates into Spanish speakers being rude? It sounds like a personal psychological problem certain English speakers project onto people who speak other language; if it’s not prejudice I’m having trouble seeing the difference

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        11·
        3 days ago

        Well, that’s a lot of questions you Just Asked.

        I mentioned this also comes up in the various non-English speaking countries, right? Including ones that Hexbear likes, where I have family connections, because I’m guessing pulling rank is where this is going.