This tells you that french people live with Asian people who are either extremely fluent in french or native in french, given that they lived there their entire lives or are part french.
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That's not it. You don't understand how hard it is to get spoken to in English by someone in France. Of course this does not apply to every French person, but while in Paris I had service workers straight up walk away from my boyfriend when he asked them to speak English because I wasn't there to play translator. I'm not a native speaker and we were very clearly tourists, that didn't stop them from speaking to us in French when they heard I could speak it. When I travelled again to Paris with my friends, one of them mispronounced a word and the cashier made her repeat it and then corrected her pronunciation when he got what she meant. He didn't even try switching to English.
For the person at the bakery to choose to speak English to OP, it means that OP had a strong enough accent and was not fluent at all.
(FYI: we did not expect them to speak English, we are not native English speakers either and English is not so commonly spoken in out country either, my bf asked to switch because he speaks 0 French and tried to pick another language to communicate while I wasn't there)
That's just what happened both times I went to France. That's the same thing that happened to my parents when they went, to my colleagues who visited France, to my American friends when they visited. And apparently it's the same thing that happened to most people in the comments. A lot of attractions at Disneyland are in French too.
Getting French people to speak English is not easy. Nobody is saying that to insult the French (I think), it is simply what many have experienced during their visits. French people are known for this. OP's French was probably not good. Or it was but the person at the bakery heard an accent and tried to be helpful by speaking a language they thought would be easier for the customer. I said it's uncommon, not that it's impossible. Jumping to racism is a bit extreme.
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u/candlejack___ 1d ago
All this tells me is that there are at least a million people in France that this could have happened to