Is it considered rude to speak Spanish in front of your non-Spanish speaking friends?
We were having this girl’s night out attending a Poetry event on campus. A cute boy from Belize I been rejecting all semester long came up to the group speaking Spanish. He feel more confident speaking his native tongue around me (We all got a class together, my friends know he can speak English)
My friends think I was being rude to talk with him in Spanish around them...
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November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
It is rude. The people I work with do this all the time. I have picked up on some of the things they say, and now know that they are talking about the americans that work there (these people are mexican). Your situation is a little different, but people do not like being left out of a conversation, and it might make them feel stupid if they do not know spanish.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
It is always rude to exclude.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
1. He’s fooling with you as national language of Belize is English.
2. You were not being rude to speak Spanish. Just keep it limited to making him feel accepted and then move on to widening the circle of people who are in the conversation.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Yes. It’s the same as telling secrets in front of your friends. Which is rude. Have some class, for Christ’s sake.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Yes it is, if you don’t want to speak English go back to wherever you came from you are not welcome here in America.
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November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
I do not think it’s rude.
The people who do are people who think you are talking about them when you speak a language they don’t understand.
They have an oversupply of self-importance, in my humble opinion.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
while you are in an English speaking country, you bet it is rude.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
No. It is not rude. You can speak any language at any time. This is a free country and no one can force you to speak another language.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
A bit. Not exceedingly, but still..
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
I guess Obama sent him a message viva dream land to speak in Spainsh he was simply obeying masters orders
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
You were being very rude and ignorant for not asking your friend to speak English. Your friends are right.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
it can be considered rude because its almost the same as whispering Its not wrong to speak another language infront of your friends as long as they understand at least a few words of what youre saying that way they don’t feeel excluded
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Yes it is rude.
It excludes others. It makes them think you are talking about them.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
hell yea
your boyfriend was the one being rude >=D Why did you feel a need to strike up a conversation in Spanish and leave your poor friends out in the cold…rude and disrespectful
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
surely your friends would have understood the conversation?
after all MOST americans high school students are REQUIRED to take spanish as a foreign language. So, SURELY they should know what you were talking about and they could have joined in.
In my opinon your friends are rude – NOT you.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
It’s freaking rude.
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November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Yes, it is very rude.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
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November 20th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
If in close enough area, yes it is very rude.
March 1st, 2010 at 1:11 pm
If no one else is involved in the particular conversation, such as with you and this boy, then it is acceptable. No one has the right to tell someone which language they should speak when they aren’t even involved in the conversation. I feel it is racist to tell people who speak a second language to go back to where they came from to speak that language. This is the United States of America and everyone has the right to speak to whom ever they want to in the language they choose. God Bless America!
March 10th, 2010 at 11:28 am
I completely agree with Daryl!!!
Also, it’s not rude if all of them were talking together and you had a conversation on the side. Sorry if the conversation was just between you two and didn’t concern them. He was more comfortable and if they ask you can repeat what you said later.
March 26th, 2010 at 6:55 am
I think it is extremely rude and alienates people. It, in my opinion is discrimination.
June 25th, 2010 at 11:31 pm
It’s not rude. Why do y’all worry what people are saying. So what if they are talking about you. Here’s what I’ll tell, you most mexicans do not, contrary to popular beliefe, talk about americans, I can vouge because, well I’m spanish possibly mexican (half to reasearch my family history yes there s a difference).
Now i look very white, not to say i cant get dark because of my native american ancestors, but most of the time i’m very white looking at least in the united states, and not when im in mexico. Ok next I can use that to my advanctage because, just about every one knows me at tapatios, a very good mexican restaurant i might add, but I’ll sit there and listen to mexicans speak and I just mess around like i dont know the language, and trust me i’ve never heard any one talk about any americans or what ever. Plus if they do they do it in private, because mexicans are too polite, so here’s the deal, so what even if they do it in public. Why should you care, here’s more advice don’t give a damn what people think about you. Gód niht and/ond godspéd, can y’all figure out what it means, hint it’s Old english, it means good night and godspeed pretty close ain’t it?