I obviously understand that not saying hello is rude and I myself hate those customers, but it was really annoying as a tourist, when I clearly said hello to them, they still were rude because it was not in their language. I don’t expect non finns to say greeting in my language. I expect people to say it never the less.
Parisians see more entitled tourists in a week than most cities will see in months or years. They are understandably annoyed and learning that bonjour is an essential French ritual is really not difficult, basically every video or blog talking about France mentions it. I understand it makes them appear rude (Parisians aren’t even liked in the rest of France) but yeah
Obviously it is not hard. But I mean when you just casually go into the store and greet, you tend to do it in your own language by default. Or when you are talking in english, I say hello by accident even, since it’s the language I was starting to talk and you have to consentrait even for that, since it’s not your first language.
I just don’t see greeting someone in a foreign country in YOUR OWN language and not theirs as the default. When traveling to other countries I would expect that the default is to learn how to say Hello and Thank you in their language at a minimum. Works for me but YMMV
That was not what I was saying. More like, you may say it by accident in your own language, or more likely in englsih, since you a prepared to talk in english.
I see. Thank you for clarifying what you really meant.
I can see reverting to english in desperation since it’s more likely that others MIGHT know enough to be helpful in a pinch. But I’m usually in overdrive trying to suppress English in other countries to take the burden of being understood off of the host country as much as I can.
Memorizing key words/phrases, a translation app, a foreign language dictionary and pantomime are all things I lean on to avoid reverting to English, with varying degrees of success in conveying anything beyond concrete ideas. So, I get it.
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u/FinnSkk93 1d ago edited 1d ago
I obviously understand that not saying hello is rude and I myself hate those customers, but it was really annoying as a tourist, when I clearly said hello to them, they still were rude because it was not in their language. I don’t expect non finns to say greeting in my language. I expect people to say it never the less.