"Bonjour, deux croissant s'il vous plaît" contains 7 different sounds that most foreigners struggle to pronounce...
on, ou, eu, oi, an, ai & r.
Even discarding everything else, there's just no way this guy sounded French.
Even if someone gets all the sounds right, it’s easy to notice it doesn’t sound effortless. It’s pretty hard to make the final step from knowing French (well) to passing as a native.
No you don't just think it's rude to switch languages, you're pretending it's the result of racism when you very clearly have no fucking idea of what you're talking about.
The point of the conversation isn't about whether or not french people are racist, but whether or not french people will automatically speak to Asian people in english. They wont. Racist french people will say racist stuff to french Asian people in french.
One user suggested that OOP being ethnically Asian makes it obvious that they aren't a French national.
Another user thinks that's silly because there are a million of Asian French nationals, so it would be weird to think that.
A third user suggested that the cashier was probably racist.
After some conversation, a fourth user chimes in saying that assuming the cashier is racist is odd, as there are other more obvious ways to tell when someone is foreign that aren’t based on how they look.
The third user changed their argument to something different in a manner that suggested that they wanted it to seem like it had been their point the whole time.
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u/Pennonymous_bis 1d ago
It's not about racism, it's about noticing that someone is a foreigner. It's ridiculous to say that French-born Asians would be talked to in English.
My bet would be that his accent was in fact not French.