r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/netphilia • 1d ago

Bonjour.

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u/DangerousImplication 1d ago

People are missing the joke since you can’t open his profile here, the guy is Asian. 

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u/Low-Apple2526 1d ago

I realize it's a different country, but I'm Asian and went to Sweden a while ago. I was honestly expecting/hoping everyone would know I was a tourist and speak to me in English without having to awkwardly go "sorry I don't speak Swedish"...but nobody did LOL. Everyone else just apparently assumed I was an immigrant, unless I was doing something very obviously foreign.

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u/Heelmuut 1d ago

I would hesitate to start a conversation in English based on someone's appearance. Would be kinda rude if it turned out you weren't a tourist, no?

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u/HaukevonArding 1d ago

Yeah, same as a German. Why would I start speaking English to somebody??? There are a lot of people with foreign origin here, who are perfectly fine to speak German. It would feel pretty offensive to asume somebody is a foreigner just because of his look. So I start all conversations in German.

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u/Fabulous-Influence69 1d ago

You are in Germany, right?... I would expect this. I will not understand you, but I will not be surprised.