Why do some Americans get angry at other people for not speaking English?

TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 128 points –

I've hears stories of some Americans telling other people who are speaking a non-English language "This is America, speak English!" even if the conversation has nothing to do with them. Why do they do this?

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I used to work with Croatians and Slovenians that spoke English fluently but switch to their language abruptly as I was standing there. I thought that rude of them

Yeah, pretty rude if they do that to exclude you specifically, for sure. Im sorry you had colleagues do this to you. Work is much better with good people.

Thanks. They were actually great people so I didn't take it too hard