HONESTLYYY And bro, talking crap about a deaf person is EXTRA douchey, man, you're hiding your bad thoughts in a medium of language you thought inaccessible to this person - how cowardly
@@ayyylmao101 YAAAS! I can hear but my 2 siblings are deaf and hard of hearing. Once my family and I were at the local Renaissance festival and my brother was wearing a homemade costume so it wasn't AMAZING but we go for fun and we're poor so ya know beggars can't be choosers, anyways this guy and girl to our left, slightly behind us, began talking crap about his costume. I think they thought he AND I were both deaf since we were signing. I was about to turn around and talk some small smack but my hard of hearing sister who isn't an introvert like me, just turned around and began yelling at them. It was honestly absolutely hilarious seeing these two people get yelled at in broken english by a hearing impaired girl in front of a massive crowd. My sister was absolutely furious and my mom had to get her to stop lol. (My sister is not a push over kind of girl very muscular sports player she has a bigger than big attitude). They ended up quietly apologizing and slinking to the back of the line. (We were at the gates 15min early and the 3 gates hadn't been opened yet so it was a messy crowded lineish wait).
Who is picking on my hard of hearing dude that’s so fucked up. They need to educate themselves. I would have been ecstatic to have a friend that would broaden my social knowledge.
Yup and they are like the best profilers too! They use a lot of expressions conveyed in sign language. Reading lips, becomes a habit for them. So, they could tell easily whose talking about them within there line of sight if deaf. If mute well, they can hear everything. Also, if you don't know sign language they can trash talk about you too and make it look like they aren't talking about you. 🤣
i've heard enough rSlash stories to the point i remember his quote, "why do people think Spanish is a secret language when it's one of the most spoken languages in the world?"
From a spanish country... English people doesn't need learn spanish cuz all your posiblities can be workable no matter what just cuz the language. We are the people who needs learn English to have a chance to succed in an internationals world; but you don't need learn spanish to have an extra chance to have a job, travel or even make internationals bussiness if that makes sense...
@@mexyo539 well sure Spanish may not be the first language you learn in most countries (non English speaking) but it's still the second one in most schools And in English speaking countries it is the first language learned
There was a news story a few years ago, about a woman, in Wales, asking another woman why she was speaking “foreign muck” to her baby instead of English. The woman was speaking Welsh. Our literal native language.
Roedd stori newyddion ychydig flynyddoedd yn ôl, am fenyw, yng Nghymru, yn gofyn i fenyw arall pam ei bod yn siarad “muck tramor” â’i babi yn lle Saesneg. Roedd y ddynes yn siarad Cymraeg. Ein hiaith frodorol lythrennol.
When I lived in Korea, little kids would always shout loudly, “엄마 외국인!” (Mom, a foreigner!). The poor mom would look mortified, and I would just laugh. I would reply, “네, 외국인 이에요. 잘 지냈어요?” (Yes, I am a foreigner. How are you?). The mom would look relieved. I honestly loved those moments because little kids are just curious and I did not want them to be afraid of people that looked different from them. My Korean is far from perfect, and still needs a lot of work.
@@urmom9837 whilst I genuinely appreciate your comment, i must inform you that: It's just humor. Take care of yourself, and don't take anything I say too seriously. It's too exhausting for you... Be well, be happy. Nice chatting with you. 😏🇺🇸
I’m Hungarian and sometimes I complain about stuff in shops when I’m with my mom or my brother, not about people or anything, more like about the prices, the queue being too long/too slow etc.
Uhm I was speaking Japanese to my friend and someone had said “”I bet that blonde girl eats dogs and cats, put (the dogs name) on your lap.” And I was like 🧍🏼♀️. I hate confrontation so I just turned to her and said “I’m sorry I’m actually Vegetarian.”. She kept quiet after that. :)
Why is THAT where her head goes? Seriously, who takes one look at someone and dives head first to the conclusion they eat dogs and cats? I know it's normal in some countries, but not enough to immediately assume that about someone.
I‘m Japanese but have been living in Durban, South Africa for over 10 years and have been attending Afrikaans school. One summer me and my family took a trip to Cape Town and there we were at a famous restaurant for lunch. It was pretty busy, but we got our seats and were waiting to be served, after a while the server did come and get our drinks and didn’t return for a while. It took quite a bit so I went to use the restroom and I heard my server and another talking about the “Asian table” and that they can prioritize the locals since Asians don’t tip. I didn’t say anything at the time, but when I went back to my seat I told my family what I heard. My dad is Japanese, but grew up in Amsterdam, my mother also went to university in France and thus are very proficient in languages and my family as a whole speak Afrikaans. When the server came and asked us in English what we wanted, we all took turns speaking in Afrikaans and ordered our food. The look on his face and the stammering was pretty funny to see.
it happens a lot, my relatives aren't exactly fond of 'gueros/a' (white people) so they tend to talk shit in Spanish, they are like, stuck in this mindset where white people are the enemy, it's dumb, but idk thats them, though I will never say otherwise cuz i am scared of la chancla :D
Eh I didn’t fw her at all. Some of the ways she said some things like “papers” idk. Gives me “I can say this racist joke cuz my husband is Mexican” vibes tbh
I didn't have someone talk bad about me, but when I lived in London for a while, one time I was taking the underground, and two Dutch tourists sat across from me, and they were debating when their stop was. Then they proceeded to ask me in English. I'm Dutch though. I felt too awkward to answer in Dutch, so I answered them in English as well, but I felt like a double agent in that moment 😅
You’d be surprised at the range of reactions you get when you reply in their language, sometimes their brain just accepts it. I live in the UK and once was serving a Greek family, who were discussing among themselves in front of me what to order. Then they tried to order in broken English, but I responded in Greek, and they just accepted what I said without any reaction and were discussing the order further in Greek, but then in English to me. Only the little kid realised and he was tugging on their sleeves saying “She’s speaking in Greek to you!” When the penny dropped the shock and delight on their faces was hilarious. I wonder if they would have ever realised, had the boy not pointed it out.
@@lethewards I remember someone responding to me in my native language when I had asked them a question in their native language (trying to be polite) and I genuinely didn't understand what they said, I was trying to translate and couldn't work it out at all haha... I had to ask my friend who spoke the language better than me and when she told me it was in our native language I was shocked. If someone asks you a question it's often easier for their brain if you respond in the language asked.
Drives me fucking nuts when people copy popular comments just to get likes. Get a fucking life, dude. There's more important shit than top comments on some video nobody will ever remember.
@@SilverFlame819 how many people live on earth? Oh alot maby next time you want to fucking say someone copied a comment remember we can all come to the same conclusion and nobody owns a comment :)
I have one Ok so I’m Half Swedish half Finnish, and I speak both languages. One time when I was hanging out with my friend she was like “hey remember that store we went to last time? Can we go there?” Because we were hanging out in the area where I live. So we go there and we’re just looking through stuff you know, as you usually do in a store. But then I see two kids, I assumed they were siblings because they looked pretty similar. So it was one older sister and a younger brother. I didn’t really pay attention to them until I realized that they were speaking Finnish, but like, really broken Finnish. Like you know how some bilingual people tend to speak one of the languages in the other languages accent? It wasn’t even like that. And it literally hurt my ears to listen to that like it sounded like they were speaking Swedish..but Finnish. Anyways, while they stand there looking through stuff behind us the brother goes “hey you see the shorter one over there? What the hell is up with that haircut she looks like a blonde version of Dora” but like that grammar was so off I almost didn’t understand what he was saying, but I understood enough to be offended. So I turn around, and say IN FINNISH “If you’re going to roast me at least do it so that I can get offended properly without having to guess what you were trying to say” The sister was literally death staring her brother and then she said sorry really quietly and then they both just went out lol
@@thefrustratedneetaspirant7777 a lot of close minded people think fat is the equivalent of ugly. Like how people use the R work as an insult.... If that's the case I'd be shouting "I'm ugly and I'm proud!" 🤓
I'm an asian girl who live in Italy and I experience this type of situation a lot😅 For example one day I was in bus with my other asian friend (she doesn't know well Italian cause she moved here for University in 2019 while I'm born and grew up here), we were talking about something like clothes and then a boy laugh to his friend and come near to us. "Ma allola voi mangiare cani?" which mean "So you eat dogs?" but they intentionally say it grammatically wrong for making fun of us. My friend who don't understand why the boy and his friends start to laugh start to look at me confused. "Tanto non capiscono" "they don't understand anyways" he say after to his friend so I lost my patience and say to him "Sei tu che non capisci niente scemo" which mean "you are the one who don't understand, idiot". He and his stupid friend freeze from the shock and after me and my friend got off from the bus 🙄🙄🙄 NOT ALL the time obviously but 20% yes
We're German. My mom looks extremely German. There was a guy who parked like a butthole and we couldn't get out of our Spot because of him. My mom politely asks him to Park better. He refused. Mom started getting angry cuz she had an appointment. This guy walks to his friends and starts insulting her in Turkish. Little did he know my mom is half turkish and fluent in Turkish. She went there, looked at him and simply asked (in Turkish): Why are you insulting me right now? You parked like a moron, not me. The look on his face was insane
@@offcolour3814 Probably wore socks in sandals. At least, it's the most German thing I can think of. (I am German) PS: Skin color has nothing to do with being German or being not German. ;)
@@offcolour3814 A lot of facial features can be tied to different parts of Europe, just like anywhere else in the world. It's the same as how you can distinguish between different Adian ethnicities. We may share skin tone, but not the same eyes, nose, lips, brows, etc.
There was a foreign exchange student in my town and class from Japan. Upon his arrival one of the teachers said to another teacher “god I hope third idiot kid can keep up with the class, I don’t wanna slow anything for him” and he walked up to her and introduced himself in perfect English. Let’s just say that teacher almost got fired and was embarrassed the rest of the time he was at our school
This is a story I heard from my fathers friend, anyways she was in London on a vacation, and a guy says to his friend in croatian- “gle ovu žirafu” (“look at this giraffe”) because she is very tall and he thought she coudn’t understand, and she says back: -“a gle ovog majmuna” (look at this monkey”) he was shoooooook
My mom always talks shit in Japanese when we're in the US... this white dude understood Japanese and he talked to us! Luckily my mom was not talking shit at the time😂 She learned her lesson tho 😳
@@tamiyaharrison9774 It's not a 100% way to learn japanese but watching media in a language you want to speak really helps you remember words. I know some people who use old American shows as a helpful way to learn English.
I know that high school is a tough place and not everyone gets the best of it. However, IDK how inhumane one can be to mock a person with special needs(1:22) that's just sick af.
When my mother was younger, her and her best friend were at some restaurant. This was in Canada btw. Her friend is Italian and has platinum blonde hair and blue eyes so people have always assumed she's from elsewhere or wouldn't believe at first she's Italian and yes I know there are blonde italians. Anyways... There were two Italian guys saying nasty and inappropriate things about my mother and her friend. Then her friend went crazy screaming at them and threw a fork at them as well. They looked horrified. My mother said it was hilarious!
I was walking through my town (in England) when this guy walked past with his 5/6 year old daughter. He stopped, pointed at me and said in french, "That haircut makes them look like an idiot". I've been studying french for nearly 5 years so I understood this and responded with, "I'm sorry my hair offends you". I've never seen a guy go so pale before in all my life. His daughter was just laughing.
I don't get why people go out of their way to offend other people. Some of these are parents who shouldn't be teaching their kids these bad behaviours.
This is a great story. Maybe that girl learned not to judge others and assume they wont understand her. Maybe she wont make herself look like an ass like her father did.
A lot of dumb people speak that way. I can speak Mandarin but not fluently. I look Chinese but I'm not. I was working in a pastry shop and couldn't explain something in Mandarin properly. I apologised and said I'm not Chinese and couldn't explain it properly. The fcking woman got angry and said how can I not be Chinese.🙄 My supervisor had to tell her that I'm not too. She could speak English and chose not to.
@@oreoorva lol that has happened to me too! I am Portuguese but it’s a small country and many people aren’t familiar with how many of us from the rural areas look. That being said, I’ve had countless people tell me I’m Jewish based on my appearance... and swear to it and tell me about myself like they know better 😂 (I’m sure there are Jewish people in Portugal! But my even ancestry results did not have Ashkenazi Jew, just 54% Portugal and the rest Spain and other European countries )
@@oreoorva omg... Not everyone who has small eyes is from chinese ma'am, use ur common sense 🙄. I have small eyes and i look like chinese too which is a common asian face and people oftenly saying that I'm chinese/japanese/korean. Meanwhile I'm indonesian
@@oreoorva Oof that is a tough place to be in. I grew up in a bilingual family, and to make matters harder my name is a standard French boomer name :P This means that every doctor's appointment or interaction starts off with, "Yo your name is so French why do you have an accent?" People always make a big deal about it, and it makes you feel out of place in places where outsiders think you should belong.
Oop I literally didn't realize she didn't put subtitles for non Spanish speakers haha, but basically the classmate kept calling her "gringa" and saying she was too bitchy and bigheaded, and after the they found out she could actually speak Spanish as well they asked her "well-- why didn't you tell us?" she responded with something like "you never even asked and I'm just too bitchy, arent I?". Hopefully it's understandable and it makes sense😭
I had similar experiences in high school and this one interaction still annoys me today. I’m Filipino and have lived in an English-speaking country ever since I was little, but I can still understand Tagalog. So one time, I held the door open for two Filipino girls and they said “Gago ka! (You’re stupid!)” to me in a cheerful tone. I think they were trying to trick me into believing that they were thanking me in their language. My expression quickly changed from happy to confused and that’s when the girls turned to me in horror. They asked me if I was Filipino and if I understood that. I said yes and they told me they thought I was Chinese or Korean. They ran off in embarrassment without even apologizing. 😓
It would have been funnier if you replied "Nakatingin kaba sa salamin" translates "Are you looking in a mirror" I made that comment one time when me and my friend were jokingly insulting each other
There’s a good piece of advice that I always like to follow: “Never say something behind someone’s back that you aren’t prepared to say to their faces.”
My motto is: never say something about someone that you would not be willing to say to their mom at their funeral. 100% honesty is good, but there is rarely a need to be hurtful. It’s good to have one person to vent to in private, for me that’s my husband, (who I know will keep my secrets because he was not listening in the first place hahah) but when chatting in public or in general, I want to be more empathetic and careful with my words I have made the mistake of not following this once, and when I turned around the person I was talking about’s mother was right behind me and certainly heard everything.
I might as well add to the list too… so a few weeks ago I graduated from college and my whole family came to Oklahoma. We went to IHOP for breakfast. (9 of us total) and everything was fine until I heard the old couple literally RIGHT NEXT to our table talking about us loudly in spanish. I heard the wife’s racist remarks and questioning of why we just HAD to be in the same restaurant as her. In addition to her comments about my white sister-in-law. (We were the only black people there.. which shouldn’t be a problem, but whatever). I decided to just look her dead in the face until we made eye contact. Then I basically challenged her and asked “Do you have a problem with me and my family being here?” … then silence. Her husband turned around and I could see the shock in his face as they realized I understood them. I’m the only one that speaks Spanish in my family…and I refuse to tolerate any of that BS. If you’re gonna talk about us then have the decency to not do it right next to our table.
You GO sister. I speak a few languages, but my killer surprise is that I LOOK super white- but I’m actually mixed - so racists sometimes feel way too free to be their ugly selves around me. Oh, what a surprise they get. In the form of awkward silence, then icy cold politeness: usually something like: “oh… what a surprise to learn you’re racist. You seemed so … decent.” (The pause just before “decent”, as if you’re searching for any word besides “not disgusting” sort of nails it - before you excuse yourself in disdain.
Ok, so as an Indian, I know a lot of languages because I never lived in a single state. So, this was a story in Bengal while me and my mom were in a bus, there was this Tamilian woman who constantly spoke ill about me, but I ignored them for good. But when their conversation shifted to speaking ill about my mom- you could say that they will never speak ill about anyone in any part of this world ever again. 🥱
@@intellectuallyelite3767 I know in India, the swastika has a good meaning. But people in the west who see your username will interpret it as offensive or get the wrong idea about you. Other people’s ignorance isn’t your responsibility, but I just wanted to let you know in case you didn’t already know
@@jess_bounce Thats her birthname..imagine telling somebody their name is offensive...i get that it has nazi connotations but you can clearly make put that this is her name not a nickname or anything else
@@jess_bounce Lol 😂. I know many western people get offended over my name. But the meaning of my name is growth and prosperity, and it's existence is over millenniums. So, I actually love my name cause I learnt it way earlier than I knew why it is offensive. And the meaning is way deeper than the symbol of a flag. I hope people understand that.
Ugh, I hate when people are being cowards and are gossiping in their language about people around them. Like they didn't do anything to you, can't you be mature enough to just shut up and walk past them? It's not a very nice feeling to not know if someone is making fun about you in another language. It's just rude if you take advantage of that.
Exactly ! Like I always feel bad for the people that really don’t understand a language and are being insulted without even knowing. The people that are insulting are indeed cowards and lowlives.
there’s people making fun of disabled people.. wow i took sign language for two years just to be able to help them a little if i ever meet someone who needs asl ... Also in that class there was a boy with special needs and was anxious to do his presentation so i learned his presentation and did it with him. He held my hand at the end and the whole class laughed at me but i’m just happy i helped him
You should be proud of yourself. I'm proud of you. You're a very good person and you'll do great things. That was the right thing to do and I promise you, many of those students are jealous of you for having the confidence to do what was good and kind.
@@stephany6417 I’ve only met a few deaf people but there’s a whole community! I learned it just incase i ever have to use it and i’m glad i did (: you don’t even have to take classes on it like i did! there’s some websites and videos that teach you the signs very well. When my teacher was lazy she’d put those on the board
On the flip side of this - a few days ago at the grocery store, my mom and I were both admiring a lovely curly-haired woman in Russian, and she gives us this small smile, like, «спасибо» (“thanks”) :-)
I went to a Chinese uni, and I was first nervous because I thought I was going to be outcast but no, majority of them try as best as they could to speak English even among themselves whenever I'm around; those who couldn't find the right words will ask someone else to help translate so I won't feel left out ❤
My grandmother understands English but she didn't speak it that well. she went out with a family friend to buy a refrigerator. She gave her friend the money and asked her to pick out a good refrigerator. The friend then said to the consultant (she talked in front of my grandmomma because that idiot thought she couldn't understand English) to show her a cheap refrigerator so she could take the rest of the money. and course my grandmother was ANGRY because she understood what that idiot said and that's the last time my grandmomma talked to her lol
Okay but for the half russian and congolese girl was tottally uncalled for. The Russian man was being paid to take her to wherever she wanted because he is in the uber service. She's was not asking for his hand in marriage, so next time he should just do his work and not think every black girl he carries wants him LMAO!!!
That’s what annoyed me. There’s this assumption with damn near everyone across the spectrum that black women “want” them. She’s literally just taking a ride somewhere (minding her business) and he didn’t hesitate to go out of his way to insult her. I really wonder abt that type of mentality with folks...😒
My husband is Chinese and he owns a massage shop. Let me just tell you, the amount of times people got offended because they don’t understand the concept of tones is staggering, not to mention the people who thought workers were bad mouthing them when they were literally asking about next appointments, or the food they brought for lunch.
Ikr! It's always so annoying when people don't understand tones, like get one single tone wrong and it turns to something completely different (like the girl in the video with the train in Beijing. No hate, just pointing out it wasn't exactly correct)
Yo, chinese here, it's actually pretty entertaining when you can understand what they are talking about. They're usually talking about their own lives and it can get pretty dramatic. Never a dull moment at the massage place
I'm glad the white girl tried to reduce stereotype about asian women in nail salons... it's high-key racist to be so aggressive and assume Asian people are talking about you when they aren't speaking English. Like seriously no one cares about you boo, you ain't that important... and if you were difficult or left a bad tip you deserve to get talked about anyways 💅
I was just about to say that exact thing! I don't SPEAK Vietnamese, but I understand it very well after 12 years of working with them, and being part of a Vietnamese family. Like, no honey, you're NOT that important. They only talk shit if you're a colossal asshole... most of the time, they're discussing whose house they're drinking at this weekend, or gossiping about other people in their community- you know, just like everybody else... I was present for some smack talk once, but it was because this goober client wrote "NO!" on the cc tip line, instead of Ø. (Kinda ignorant to put that on a $70 bill, but whatever. We all had a good laugh over it)
@@kittiewoodheath4140 so true. i went to this chinese salon and they were just talking about this movie that came out. I thought it was pretty boring since I never watched the movie and was not gushing over the characters lol.
Chill, Shannell. In case you didn't notice, this video is 99% about poc being racist against white people. Sit down and stop pulling the race card even when it's not in your advantage. If that's the only thing you were left with from watching this video, then you have already proven my point.
i mean it’s not racist to think someone’s talking about you while they are talking and looking up at you and laughing. Shit i think people are doing that in english half the time. You are reaching and it’s sad. You have the audacity to say your customer isn’t “that important” but expect a good tip- life doesn’t work that way
One time i was in a traincar in Italy with 3 swiss people who used both German and Italian. When it was time to get off one of them made space for me to pass by and the woman in the group switched to German to comment "just cause she's pretty". I still think about that when I'm hating my face.
@@donnella7752 why? She was probably just teasing her friend and didn't know I could understand. Plus what she said was a compliment, so she just inadvertently made my day, lol.
My story is a little different. I have a 12 year old cousin. One day, his mother paid me to watch him and his friend while she was out so they wouldn't burn down the house or anything like that because my cousin had a bit of a stupid streak going on. Well, him and his friend decided they wanted to have a "private conversation" and started writing on a piece of paper. They were snickering and acting suspicious so I looked over their shoulder to see what they were writing. Little shits were writing a plan on how to sneak out without me noticing in Elvish and thought that since I'm a girl who doesn't seem the type to like DnD, I would just think it was scribbles. I took the pen they were using and wrote in big Elvish letters "don't even think about it"
I know right! Obviously she’s half Russian so I wasn’t surprised she could speak it, but man, her pronunciation is native 👌and she also speaks English without a Russian accent. Go girl!
I was 14 and a girl beside me at the movies said, in French, that my shirt was ugly. I looked over to my mom and said that I LOOOVE reading Harry Potter in French. And that girl changed seats
Here's my experience. So I went to a restaurant a few months ago and there were a lot of Italians there, me knowing Italian, I heard these 2 people making fun of my birthmark and they said "her birthmark is ugly it looks like old chocolate that was soaked in dirty water" I walked past them and in Italian I said "I'm glad you like chocolate, I like it too. Its delicious" them thinking a 15 year old Mexican girl cant speak Italian, they were shocked. A waiter heard and felt bad and gave me a treat of my choice which of course I chose chocolate cake. I found it funny
The second guy when he said "Look at what i drew, Chris! Yay!" my heart melted ! He's so adorable and precious how can people talk bad about someone so pure 🥺
I am fairly pale for an Iraqi guy, I have long hair and piercings and I wear a cross everywhere (yes, I am a Christian) and I grew up in Toronto so I have no accent. I constantly hear Arabs making comments about my looks to each other on the subway and I always just go up to them and speak in Arabic. When I was younger I would give a more vulgar response but I am in my 20s now so I just pretend to be an Iraqi tourist asking for directions lol
Lol. I was living in Croatia for a while. I was working in a coffee shop on my laptop, trying to figure out the best fonts to use for a project (I am a Graphic Designer). These two white girls from Québec, Canada decided to sit next to me and start judging what I am doing on my laptop « Ayoye, elle fait quoi, elle perd son temps à chercher des polices de caractère » which translates to « Wth is she doing wasting her time on typefaces » Im Asian born and raised in Quebec, so they probably thought I was another random Chinese tourist or something. So before I had to pack my stuff, I saw that they were still looking at my screen like vultures so I decided to open a Google Doc file, put my size font at 60 so that they could read, and typed a whole lot of shit in French LMFAO. Their faces went 😟😟😟😟😟 They were shocked and embarrassed that I could understand everything they were talking about!
Thank you for giving me a bit of a workout. I tried to read the French part without the translation, but I couldn't because I am still a bit of a beginner at learning French.
oh you were in croatia!!! which part of the country and how did you like it? 😁 i always get excited when someone mentions croatia anywhere on the internet lol
A few years ago my mom was studying french & while having a conversation with her teachers they mentioned they were really homesick, so she invited them over for dinner. She spent the whole day cooking french food, she bought a selection of french cheeses for them to snack on, & one of them was really cheap, but it was relevant in a family anecdote so that's why she bought it. I was a very shy 16 yo so I barely spoke to her teachers when they arrived home. We sat down at the table, my mom & dad stood up to get something from the kitchen, and one of them grabbed the cheap cheese and told the other one in french: oh god, not this shit cheese... they laughed and continued talking in french mocking the cheese, mind you there were 5 other really nice & fancy cheeses on the platter, so they were just being mean... I was so mad cause I knew how hard my mom had worked for them & how excited she was to make them feel at home, so I turned to face them & told them in perfect french: my mom bought that cheese cause she was going to tell you a really funny story about it.... I can still see their face!!! HA! One of them managed to stutter: you speak french!? Yes, so you should be really careful when you talk shit around other people, you never know when someone will understand...
This is my story... So I'm Jordanian and obviously my mother language is Arabic but now we live in south Korea because my dad is opening his business and stuff . We lived there for about 12 years . And because we are gonna live here for quite a long time I had to learn the language . So I'm in this bus going to school , and these two guys are like " she looks foreign but she is pretty " and I started blushing but they didn't see me thanks God . And then one of them started approaching me and said in English " hi . Do you go to our school ? " . And I said in Korean " it's fine you don't have to talk to me in English I know the language " and he was like : 😳
I am disabled, and visited Japan in highschool as part of a sister-cities program. I had already been into Japanese culture (and no, not even Anime) so I'd taken Japanese and could speak it a bit. When I got to Japan, being immersed for only a few days, I became incredibly capable of understanding it. As I mentioned, I use a wheelchair. Japan is not a very accessible place, and disabled people are often kept at home. My host family was very westernized, and explained some of this to me. We went to one traditional tea house and the younger waitress who helped me into the side door was very polite in English, but admonished my host father, saying "Why did you bring this lame gaijin here when you know we don't have the facilities for it? How irresponsible. What a burden." I responded in broken Japanese "Apologies if I burdened you, I want to show respect for the host." She turned beat red and bowed incredibly low and apologized in English and in Japanese over and over and over again. She waited on me hand and foot after that and wouldn't leave my side. This was 20+ years ago now, and I don't know what Japan is like now, but the presumption was that they treated their elders with respect, when the reality is that they treated elders and the disabled as liabilities, and the responsibility of the family. While I was there, the grocery store called and I was the only one nearby to answer, and they didn't have an answering machine. I took the call and even took notes writing in Japanese. The supermarket was calling to admonish my host father for letting his very elderly, but very lucid and even quite smart mother shop alone. That she was having trouble reading labels, and no son should burden the store with his problem like that. I kept thinking I wasn't understanding him correctly, that surely she must've been lost or something more serious, but she'd already left the store and was headed home and the supermarket employee was simply calling to complain about reading a label for an old woman. He realized I was American at the end of the call and said I spoke good Japanese and wanted to practice English, which was such a contrast to how outright rude he had just been about the very nice old woman asking for help reading ONE label. I loved Japan, but every culture has a lot of learning to do when it comes to treating the disabled with equity. Edit: I added a story down below about a positive experience I had as well.
Since becoming disabled I've only been travelling within Europe (I'm from the UK) and it's a lot worse than here. And I'd say it's not great here. I hope Japan is better these days as I hope to go one day... Their perspective on disability from what you said is awful but also really interesting, it's not one I've heard before, about being the liability of the family. I hope shop owners etc learn to see that by taking the 'burden' of reading a label etc they're going to get more custom!
This is why I have worries about going to Japan disabled.. Like I can walk but I need a wheelchair with long distances (muscular atrophy). I almost just want to force myself to walk even if my legs give out and I'm suffering for days just to avoid this type of thing..
We had a similarly negative experience at a dollar shop and another at a train that wasn't accessible--they insisted it was since they had accessible stickers. I had a VERY positive experience while in Japan as well, when visiting a shrine. My host family was certain they wouldn't allow me to bring my wheelchair into the Temple because the Buddhists were very protective of people not dirting the temple. But when we arrived, it was by far the most accessible thing in japan. The monks had build a solid wood ramp all across one of the sides of the building where there's normally stairs leading up. When we got inside, they had me drive up onto blocks, then 3 men came out of a back room and washed my chair's wheels down vigorously, then powdered them and dusted them. They were so respectful and treated my chair like it was a part of me, silently and very gently turning the wheels. Then we went around the beautiful temple--but we reached a part where there were stairs up, and one of the Monks asked if he could carry me. I have dwarfism, so I am very small--but normally I HATE being carried by strangers. I decided to take a chance, and he so gingerly lifted me up, it felt like I was some kind of royalty. He brought me to places people don't normally get to go, and we even got to sit in a small room up in a tower, drink tea and practice Japanese/English together while my host family went up into a different tower that was identical but cramped. The Buddhists were so unbelievably caring with me and my assistive devices, and used words of respect and honor when referring to me. They were so nice and sweet and I've never felt more appreciated. I left like a 50 dollar tip :V, which for me was so much money. I think it's so important to mention both of these stories to communicate the extreme variation.
on my moving day as a college freshmen my dad told me that my roommate was pretty fat in korean....I just ignored him but then her mom walks in and speaks Korean to her and my dad is like oh you are Korean? and I'm just embarrassed for myself. I apologized for my dad later and we became pretty close after that
omg my dad constantly stays racist stuff in chinese in front of people all the time thinking they don’t understand him, and i get so pissed off by it but god would i be so embarrassed if it happened that one day one of these people understood him...
As someone who encounters Russian very often, the energy in that story and the correct Russian had me wheezing- I don't think I've been talked crap about but I have been talked to in Russian by people who know I don't know it (or rather, I can't speak it but I understand like half)
I saw a story online. Basically it's about an asain girl who was on a bus one day, two white girls saw her and start talking shit in English and laughing at her hairband or hairstyle(i couldnt remember), the girl turned around and told the rude girls she could understand. Those girls were shocked but then they switched to French and continued mocking the asian girl. The girl smiled and replied in French.Those two then stopped talking. She later revealed that those are the only two foreign languages she could speak and they just stepped right in her corner lol.
I was in a flight from Seoul to LA a couple of years ago. There was this girl who was sitting in the back row with her dad, she had asked for a cup of water and instead of drinking it, she just left it on the tray sitting there. I even remember one of the flight attendants telling her to not just leave it there cause I could spill over but she ignored her and went to sleep. A couple of hours went by and I was tired so I moved my seat back a little bit to sleep when I suddenly hear a loud gasp coming from the back. Turns out, the damn cup of water spilled all over her. She gets up, ready to fight me and even tells her dad to back her up, I turn my head back to see what was going on and apologize even though it wasn't my fault, when both of them saw me they just rolled their eyes and the girl said "Ah, it's a stupid foreigner", her dad followed with "It makes sense that she's stupid" and went back to their seats. I was tired so I really wasn't in the mood to clap back but when we landed, a elder woman was trying to hurry her way down the plane and needed to get her bags from the upper compartment, no one was helping her so I reached out to her. Mind you, the girl and her dad were still waiting in their seats when they saw me reaching out to the woman and speaking to her in korean with honorifics and the whole thing. I was so pleased when I saw their shocked expressions and the girl covering her face when she walked past me on her way out😹
Ok here's a story: So, I am an American citizens of Asian descent. I speak fluent English which is arguably better than my Chinese. I was visiting my grandparents in China, and this white couple with 3 children were like "oh look at those * some kind of racial slur *'s they're eating dogs" (we were eating fish like wtf) I turned around and said "We're eating fish. Get a new prescription." Now, my entire family is fluent in English. But since me and my sister don't have accents, we sound like normal American citizens (Which is what we are). This lady was *shook* . Me and my sister started talking to each other in English instead of Chinese, and the mother just picked up her bag and left
6:19 "gringa" actually refers to someone's nationality, not their skin colour. It's a term we Latinos use to refer to any Anglosajón (people from english-speaking countries) especially US Americans.
In Brazil we use it to refer to anyone that isn’t Brazilian. It just means “foreigners” to us and we don’t normally use it as an insult. I am shocked to see it being used like that. The word itself to us doesn’t mean good or bad, it really just means foreigners. It depends on the context. When we call people gringos, we aren’t usually talking bad about them. It’s the actual opposite, everyone is excited to see gringos and the girls always joke that they want to marry a gringo 🤣
I thought she was too cute! I honestly would love to see what her parents are like and how they interact with each other and her- it would be so fun. 😂😆
My grandpa knows 8 languages and like all old Turkish men, he likes to listen to other people's conversation. Most people assume he doesn't speak French, Dutch, English or German (cause he's a first generation immigrant) so whenever he starts talking, people get shocked at how fluent he is.
I speak all those languages except for france. Plus spanish, catalan and an little bit portugese, i would have loved to meet your grandpa and talk in these different languages with each other.
@@kern_es For immigrants (or second generation immigrants) in the Netherlands this is a common amount of languages and i think it’s a good thing we learn many languages here^^
I’ve caught people talking crap about me in Spanish many times. They usually use racial slurs or just start making fun of Asian cultures (Because, most people think I’m East Asian or Filipina but I’m latina) When that happens, I usually start speaking fluent Spanish with my partner. The horrified look on their faces is the best thing 😂😂
@beginning of the end I’m not asian fishing tho? I didn’t get to choose how I was going to look. Plus I’m not the only one in my family that “looks asian”
@beginning of the end y'all taking asian fishing too far lmao. stop trying to look woke, its not because someone has black hair, fair skin and big eyes that theyre asian fishing, genetics exist
Ooh, I have such a good one!! Okay so this was at my old school in Taiwan, about a year ago. I was in the bathroom fixing my hair, and this group of girls comes in. The leader (or I assume she was) looks at me and goes “うわー、彼女はとても醜いです ! “ (Wow, she’s so ugly!) Natrually, the other girls laugh along, etc. I finish doing my hair, and right before I’m about to walk out of the bathroom, I reply “醜い性格とは異なり、少なくとも醜い顔を修正することができます。” (Unlike an ugly personality, you can at least fix an ugly face) The look on their faces was priceless. I’ll never forget it.
Oooh I pass for this but in the contrary way, so, I am a Latin American, and sometimes there's tourist, so, it was this Asian guy with his camera taking photos and selfies and my Mom and I looking at him and I said: "Pobrecito, ni con los calzones lo van a dejar." "Poor boy, they are not gonna leave him even with boxers." and he turned to me and said: "Enserio? ¿Debería guardar mi cámara?" "Seriously? Should I pack my camera?" at frist, I was shocked, but I explain him that is very dangerous to walk with cameras outside without anybody around. Latina people who live or once live in Latin America will understand.
@@Amoradamian El estaba completamente solo, solo mi mamá y yo y algunas personas al rededor, mi país no es muy seguro que digamos y es re normal que asalten turistas porque andan con todo de afuera xd
I was showing my ex boyfriends mom my new puppy and in English she said, “Aw he is so cute.” [for context, my dog of 9 years had just passed away and she knew how upset I was over it]. WITHOUT SKIPPING A BEAT, she said, “wow, he is so ugly” in Spanish and just walked away. I looked up at my ex and he looked mortified saying, “mom - she doesn’t speak Spanish but she understands it.”
The first one, the second one Why do people just look at you, don't know you at all and all of a sudden hate you. Then they come up with excuses like "I have a bad feeling. he/she just doesn't have good energy" Or maybe they're just Freaking shy or just quiet or just Naturally look that way and deep down are probably the nicest person in the world and you are the actual one with the bad and demonic energy. Ever thought about that for a moment??
A lot of times it is because they are insecure/jealous or hurting a lot inside. That doesn't make it okay. But normally it's not even about the person they are being rude to. 💕
Some elderly women looked at me in the subway and started talking loudly about how much they hated foreigners. I was only a teen and as a Korean, I was taught to respect the elderly, so I didn't wanna confront them. After a few stops, they wouldn't stop so I took out my phone and pretended to take a call. Said in perfect German, "I'll be right there but there are some racist grannies here, pretty annoying if you ask me". Obviously, they shut up right away and tried to avoid eye contact
So it was probably around when I was in 4th grade when this takes place. It had only been around 2 years ever since I came to Japan, and I was still trying to get the hang of speaking in japanese as if I was a native. (At this point, I could definitely understand what people were saying, I was still working on my accent.) So I would usually talk to my foreign friend from school in English cause it was easier than trying to speak in Japanese for the entirety of the day. And then these 6th graders (I actually knew them, they were part of the same committee as my friend/not the one in this story, so my committee would usually finish earlier than hers so I would wait outside where they were having the meetings what-not) were walking past us in the hall, they called us weird, aliens, and were basically being the equivalent of being racist. And then, once they were done smack-talking me and my friend, I look at her and I go 「ねぇ、この人達が私達が日本語を話せないと思っているのがちょっと恥ずかしくない？」(Hey, don’t you think it’s embarrassing that these guys didn’t know we could speak Japanese?) And then the bell rang. Me and my friend went back to our classroom, and I got a glance at the 6th graders and their faces were, A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. They genuinely looked shocked and worried. When school ended I told on them to my home room teacher, my friends home room teacher and their home room teacher the following day. During the ‘following day’ me, my friend and the 6th graders were dragged out of our classrooms during break time, and I just told the story as is. They got an entire lecture to never be racist and be nice to people. While me and my friend had gotten a good laugh out of that situation. I actually just started middle school, and I’ve met them in the hallways. I introduced myself as 「あの、外国人」(that foreigner). It took them like at least 30 seconds to remember. I’m pretty sure they felt second hand embarrassment from their 6th grade actions, and it was hilarious to just watch them feel embarrassed. Oh yeah, I also got a proper apology so I mean win-win?
Laat year me and my family went to Tokyo Disneyland. I'm not Japanese nor was my family, but most of us just looks like we are(we're Filipinos) One time while me and my cousins were reading a plaq a white man was behind us and he screamed "GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY, I'M TRYING TO TAKE A DAMN PICTURE!" Me and my cousins turned around and I glared at his ass saying "GEEZ SORRY" while walking back to the side. We didn't even hear a "excuse me" before hand, the place at that time was really quiet and all you could hear would be the typical soft Disney land music playing in the background and the river flowing. Nothing else. The guy looked like he pissed his pants because the bitch assumed we were Japanese and didn't speak English, but since he already did the damage he just had to deal with it. My dad, wanting to get simple revenge just blocked his view again making him even more pissed off and he ended up leaving lol
So many people understand a decent amount of English from having to learn it in school. If someone’s first language is English they shouldn’t even try to get away with talking crap in a foreign country under the assumption no one will understand them because chances are someone will.
@@ellaarmstrong216 Right ? English is like the most commonly used language to speak with foreigners because almost everybody understands it to a certain degree. Thinking that people can't understand you, when you're speaking English is just stupid.
My friend warned her mother that I hard a hard time speaking spanish but I understood it well. We are both Mexican. Her mother I guess didn’t take it too seriously because one day when I went over to my friend’s house and she dyed my hair brown, her mother said “ese color mire como caca de gato” meaning “that color looks like cat shxt.” I turned to her and started laughing. My friend was shocked as well as her mother, and her mother ran out of the room while my friend yelled after her that she should have heeded her warning 😂
I'm Chinese but I'm born and live Malaysia. I think I was 11 at the time? So, I was taking a walk through my neighbourhood and there were these two malay old people. They were like skinny as fuck and not the good looking kind. As I was walking, I heard them gossiping about me. "Wow, look at her! She's so fat and ugly! Haha, look at her eyes! Look at her face! It's so round! Look at her shirt! It looks sooooo dumb." they were looking at me and then looked back at each other and laughed. As I walked past them, I greeted them politely because I was still a kid after all and I should "respect my elders". BITCH WHY THE FUCK SHOULD I RESPECT YOU WHEN YOU DON'T RESPECT ME?! Okay, so, I greeted them politely and they nodded. They still insulted me when I was right in front of them. "Haha, she's such a fucking idiot! She can't even understand us! Hahaha". After I walked past them, they were still talking shit about me. I turned around a bit and I could see them making rude gestures about me. I already lost weight that time. I just have a round face because, GENETICS. Plus, I was wearing an oversized shirt and stuff. My mom has a round face too... So, technically, you're insulting my mother too! I mean, you're already like 70 so why are you still so immature? That's a KID you're insulting! I didn't confront them because "rEsPeCt YoUr ELdErS!1!1!1"
@Dancing Diva palak I don't understand some people. They are so old and yet, they gossip like the red no tomorrow. I don't know if they've talked shit about my family either. Maybe they did?
@@wheresdarice3988 lol i live in malaysia too. Im shock why u didnt just mock them back. Just say "dah tua bangkai, masih tak sedar kah dah dekat mau mati tapi masi mengata org". How old were u?
@@bosoudang Well, I was 11 at the time. I was always told to respect my elders and other people as well. You could say that I was a disciplined child back then.
The one I was the most satisfied was in middle school. It was a french school in Morocco. At that time I knew how to speak french, english and a little of portuguese. I was pretty good at learning new language, but I cant learn new alphabet, which is why even now, I cant speak/read/write arabic, I just know the basic. It was a day where all family could come to see a presentation of their kids/siblings. It was mostly dance but since im suck at that I would just explain why sleep is important and the effect it has in our entire lives. (also I was wearing a grudge outfit with my chains, shockers, rings...) So there was the family of a girl (layla) that I just couldnt stand (she wasnt mean just super annoying). So her older sis started saying "look at her, where does she think she is, dressing like that." In english with an insult in arabic. Her mother says "dont say it like that, its mother could understand and we would be in a bad situation. But otherwise you're right, what does it plan to do ? You're not friends with it right ? I dont want it to be a bad example for you" and she said all that in portuguese. I started laughing and said "dont worry, my plan is certainly not hanging out with your dauther. Also, I would like to thank you, for respecting my pronous. My mother is not here to put you in whatever 'bad situation' you're speaking of, do not worry about that. I'm really sorry now, but I need to go do my presentation, since thatd what I plan on doing" in english with a smile. (thats not the exact words but it was something like that) The look on her face was and still is priceless.
My grandma once told me a story about an embarrassing incident like this: So my granny is Swedish, and sometime in the 60's she visited Berlin with another Swedish friend of hers. They were on an S-Bahn (a train) when they were talking shit about some of the other passengers and my grandma rudely said: "Kolla på den tjocka tyska grisen som dricker öl mitt på dagen!", which translates into "Look at this fat German pig drinking beer in the middle of the day!" (my grandma comes from quite an elitist background, where they somehow like to make nasty remarks). The beer drinking guy then turned around to my grandma and her friend and said: "Den tjocka tyska grisen är svensk", "the fat German pig is Swedish". They were of course very embarrassed and fled that train as soon as they could. Also, my grandma later met and married a German guy, which made her learn German and at least made her forget her stereotypes on Germans a bit.
My 8th grade history teacher's first language is German. Before she came to my school, she was teaching to another one in my town. One day, two girls started to say sh*t about her in German (I think they're German or have German parents). She brushed it off, thinking it was just that they were angry because they were having a bad day or something and just needed to vent on something or someone. But they continued to talk that way about her severals days after until my teacher said in German : "I can understand you, you know?" The girls were so embarressed and they asked if she could not speak to their parents about it.
I have many stories about this but this is one of the most memorable ones: I moved from China to Indonesia, and many students in my school knew that I was Chinese, because of my light skin and etc but none of them knew that I'm actually Half-Indonesian Half-Chinese. So one day, I was just looking out the window when a girl next beside me was cackling, saying, "Jalang ini sangat gemuk, apa yang dia makan?" Which translates to "This bitch is so fat, what does she eat?" in Bahasa Indonesia. I turned my head around and looked at the girl straight in the eye and glared, "Saya mungkin gemuk, tapi setidaknya lemak bisa dilangsingkan; ciri jelek tidak bisa." Which means, "I may be fat, but at least fat can be slimmed down; ugly can't"
not to invalidate your experience (simply curious here), but do Indonesians actually say "jalang" irl? Never saw anyone using that word in actual conversations.
@@rosyi9695 Yeah, we don't use Jalang as a swear words against Women. Usually just ugly or 'Pelakor', sometimes 'Cabe'. Probably Malay? But I don't know, SEA language is a cultural pot anyway...
Idk in which area you lived, but Indonesians rarely use straight book Indonesian, like how your friend said because it sounds too formal. Especially the 'jalang' part. I'm sorry tho for the bad experience. And chinese people are common thing in Indonesia so maybe you lived in the area where outsiders are rare i guess?
She would tell her friend, "look at this gringa, you can tell she's a stuck-up brat". Then when she was shocked to learn the girl understood/spoke Spanish, she answered "yes, it's my language" (she used the wrong word for language), and when the girl said "why didn't you say so?", she said "well, because you never asked, and besides, I'm stuck up, right?"
Well I'm not sure if this counts. So long ago it was my mom's birthday and me and my family were planning to go to a Chinese restaurant to celebrate her party (just so you know my family is Mexican). So when we got our tables there was this black lady(I hope I didn't sound racist) staring at us in disgust and I was the only one who noticed her staring, I didn't think much of it tho. My whole family were enjoying their time talking to each other until I heard the lady's family talk. Lady 1: Ugh omg they talk too loud and are extremely annoying. Lady 2: I hope they don't try to rob us since there's lots of crimes because of them. Lady's husband: *starts to mock our language in a gibberish way* Lady 1: They should celebrate their party in Mexico. That's where those drug dealers belong. All of them start laughing. Teen boy: At least they don't understand what were saying. I didn't want to confront them since it's my moms birthday. So I just stared at them while they were trash talking my family. They noticed my staring and their face turned so pale when they realized that I could understand them, even though I didn't confront them, once they noticed me staring at them they knew I understood them. So they ended up leaving. And now I'm teaching my parents English so that they can surprise people that trash talk them.
que horrible...... mil disculpas la señora estaba muy grosera. lo siento que el hombre se burlo tu idioma😣 espero que no vas a permitir sus acciones cambiar cómo percibes a las personas de ascendencia africana xxx muchas besos xx 💋
I live in Quebec in Canada where french is the more talked and predominant than english except that , in Montreal which is a multicultural cities, is a bilingual city where both english and french are used depending on the neighborhood. I am from Morocco, but grew up in Montreal going to francophone school, so I speak french, but I am still fluent in english. Anglophones here tend to have this stereotype that francophone are bad at english. One time in the bus, there was this racists white anglophone students against indian hindu men. They were yelling that they were smelling bad and didn't take bath because they are indian and other racist things. When she tried to put me in her racist rants, I pushed her away and called her out. After that she would speak badly about me , in english, to her friends and mother. I met her a second time and she recognized me and spoke bad about me to her friend and I also understood her lmao. I also understand spanish and spoot some people talking like I did not understand
Awww :( thank you! Indian people get so much hate and judgement, it feels really bad. Like I'm just trying to live my life. I remember we were in Prague and this lady shouted at my dad for nothing.
@@mridul7639 Thank you and it is normal. In the beginning, I was in shock because it was the first time that people were directly racist to someone. I saw these group of indian men (they also were a turban) several times in the bus since they work around there. One time, as I got up the bus, I saw this white anglophone girl and two boys screaming that the back of the bus was smelling (thata where the indian men were) and continued with their racist rant even after they were not in the bus. I was shocked and didn't grasp what was happening until I went tp sit in the back of the bus and heard what they were saying. I looked at them badly and she tried to have me agreeing that it smell bad because of the men that left. I clearly told her to stop being childish, but she looked at me badly. A man called her out by screaming in english to her and her friends that they were f*cking racists. I told her to stop it and that she was embarassing and then changed places. She started to speak badly about me and she was telling the boys that they are gonna beat me up or something like that. I got scared and called my mother , she told me to be calm and recite the Quran. As I was exiting the bus, they started to say mockingly Astarfillulah and other muslim religious sayings.
@@ayatahery1427 You're such a good person. It's great that you stood up to them even when it was a bit scary, I try to help people out too. I hope you don't have to face any discrimination. People can be so mean and hateful but there are also so many people like you. :)
It can be such a complicated place to grow up. My mother's family is French, and my father's is bilingual, and they named me after an old friend of theirs. So I have this old fashioned Francophone name, but an accent when I speak French and English. It doesn't matter who I'm around, I'm either my anglo friends' French person who "speaks de Henglish" ou la cousine anglophone -_- I can't imagine how alienating it must be to be a POC on top of that. I'm so sorry that you've had to experience such terrible things in Montreal and that no one has really stood up for you in these instances.
@@perilouspigeon6613 I personally grow up in a diverse neighborhood and went to schools where the majority was either immigrants or first-generation immigrant. My mom and her friends tend to experience those kind of things and I have noticed it when we are out with my mom's friends and their kids. We get some nasty looks and people talking behind our back but they tend to be old people so we dont really give them attention. Like I said, I grew up here so I consider myself morrocan-quebecoise/canadian and proud of my heritage and grewing up here. Normally, you don't experience that much racism in diverse areas just some micro-agressions from time to time.
Lol, love the half-Russian girl story. I mean not the incident, that sucks. I like listening to Russians talk shit about you online when they assume you don't understand them. Basically being judgmental of everyone on any account 😅
#notallrussians of course but some who aren't fluent in English just love talking shit about you if they assume you're a westerner. Saying the n-word is a common tactic they think it's badass that they can "scare you off" with that when in reality people just think you're a moron and leave
I love Printsessa, I aspire to be like her as a slav in the western world myself! But yeah, I absolutely hate the racism and the audacity of so many Slavs, unfortunately my dad is like this and he says a lot of really rude shit about people of colour or people he doesn’t like, in our language. I wish he didn’t
Some years back I was working one of the registration/check-in desks for a convention that brings people from all over the world. There was a pair of younger Japanese guys around my age, and one asked the other in Japanese “What’s with that guy’s tattoo on his hand?” “I don’t know, but it looks stupid.” I’m not really confident speaking Japanese and they clearly knew English, so I said in English “Oh you think my tattoo looks stupid? It’s supposed to look like branches and leaves on a tree. I like it a lot.” They’re shocked and ask me in English “You understood what we were saying??” “Yeah, I speak some Japanese.” Then right after that, they’re speaking with each other again in Japanese and say “We should be more careful from now on, there might be other people around here who can understand what we’re saying.” So I said again in English “Yeah, you really should be more careful, this convention has people from all over the world, so you never know if they can understand you or not.” They’re shocked again and ask “You understood that too??” “...I just told you I speak some Japanese.” Complete silence after that lol
My contribution (though, they weren't talking about us lol): My family background is Sri Lankan Tamil, and we are Australians. However, before living in Australia, we lived in Poland when I was very young. Hence, my parents can speak Polish fluently, and me somewhat. On the train one time (in Aus) there was a couple having an argument with each other in Polish. Eventually, the wife got off the train, and her husband stayed on looking pretty miserable. My dad went over and started chatting to him in Polish, and they had a long ass convo about life and marriage. That guy looked so happy (and was stunned to see a big brown guy speaking Polish lol), and it was honestly one of the best moments I'd ever experienced.
Years ago I was in a gift shop in Copenhagen. Lots of American tourists milling about and the two clerks were just dissing all of us savagely. It came my time to pay and in my best Danish I admonished and reminded them that some Americans can actually speak your language as my parents were from Denmark. Jaws on the floor.
I have the opposite story: One day, in the area I grew up (California) I noticed that there were a lot of tourists In the part of CA, USA I live in - most people who live here speak a language that is not English, including myself and my family. So simply speaking another language does not mean that someone is a tourist. But I could tell that some of these people were tourists because they came in a tour bus with a tour group (and also the older people all had the stereotypical tourist apparel) and they were also talking about something travel related that I don’t remember I pointed out to my friends in English how cute it is that our home has tourists. My friends were kinda far from me so I said it loud enough that they could hear, which meant she could hear it too She took it as some massive insult and then came up to me and with the most attitude I’ve ever seen intentionally bumped into me and said “excuse me” in English after. As if she was so proud to prove she speaks English. I speak the language her family was speaking too, and would’ve said something but she absolutely disappeared behind me so quick I kinda think she only understood some of what I said in English and just assumed it was intended as an insult ? Like I can’t enjoy that where I grew up is finally well-known-enough to have a stop for tourists?
Ok so this is my mom's story. (FYI my mom and I are vietnamese) My mom was a nail technician before and therfore has a lot of experience in the business. We went to this new local nail salon to check it out. My mom was hesitant to get her nails done but she decided to do it. But, when she got it done she noticed a lot of flaws. The girl who was working on her was apparently a newbie and should have not worked on clients, in my mom's opinion. My mom didn't like the way she done it so she kind of told her what she didn't like. Well, the girl and her coworkers weren't happy so they talked bad about my mom in vietnamese (i.e. "She is so picky" "She is so difficult") In the end, after my mom paid she said in vietnamese, "Thank You." The girl was shocked and her coworker said smth along the lines, "OMG she heard everything," while chuckling. Btw, according to my mom's experience, nail technicians talk shit about their clients A LOT!
Well that’s unfortunate that your mom knows so many crappy ppl. Hope anyone else who read this do realize that this is based solely on this person’s mom’s own experience. Not everyone is the same and assumption of being shit talked about shouldn’t be ur first conclusion. It’s generally more realistic that most nail techs act similar to the way the lady in the video described rather than 100% shit talking every client.
@@nouje No one said anything about them talking shit 100% of the times though. There can obviously shit talk and normal stuff too. This obviously has to do with the work environment and how a place is managed. A proper leader will not allow shit talk about customers, no matter the language. But if the manager is shitty themselves or can't lead, then it could become a big problem
@@LinneAzalea I agree with you on the management stuff and what I said wasn’t to contradict whatever they said word for word. Rather, it was in response to the last sentence they added. With their emphasis on the word “ALOT”, its implication is that it happens quite often. I just wanted to make sure that those who read the word ALOT, doesn’t take it for 100%, as in all the time cuz I’m sure there will be ppl out there who will take it as that.
I'm Chinese but I'm born and live Malaysia. I think I was 11 at the time? So, I was taking a walk through my neighbourhood and there were these two malay old people. They were like skinny as fuck and not the good looking kind. As I was walking, I heard them gossiping about me. "Wow, look at her! She's so fat and ugly! Haha, look at her eyes! Look at her face! It's so round! Look at her shirt! It looks sooooo dumb." they were looking at me and then looked back at each other and laughed. As I walked past them, I greeted them politely because I was still a kid after all and I should "respect my elders". BITCH WHY THE FUCK SHOULD I RESPECT YOU WHEN YOU DON'T RESPECT ME?! Okay, so, I greeted them politely and they nodded. They still insulted me when I was right in front of them. "Haha, she's such a fucking idiot! She can't even understand us! Hahaha". After I walked past them, they were still talking shit about me. I turned around a bit and I could see them making rude gestures about me. I already lost weight that time. I just have a round face because, GENETICS. Plus, I was wearing an oversized shirt and stuff. My mom has a round face too... So, technically, you're insulting my mother too! I mean, you're already like 70 so why are you still so immature? That's a KID you're insulting! I didn't confront them because "rEsPeCt YoUr ELdErS!1!1!1"
And that's why I do my nails by myself. I'd rather not have something fancy than to pay to be shitted on. These are the people who will cry when lose their jobs.
Once, my great-aunt was on a bus. She was born in America, but her parents (my great-grandparents) were born in Finland. Anyway, the details of the story vary from person to person, but the most common one. Two people walked down the bus, gradually insulting everyone down the row in Finnish. She didn’t want them to get to her, so she said something along the lines of “that’s very nice” in Finnish. They were horrified. And no, I can’t speak Finnish, but I’ve always wanted to learn!
I heard this second hand, this girl was sitting on a bus in Norway, and these two Icelandic men started talking saying really naughty things about her, about how pretty she was and what they'd do to her. She waited till her stop and went "takk, strákar" (thanks, boys) before getting off. I'm Norwegian and have a few stories as well, but I liked that one 😂
