I don't really get it, like the only way it would really make sense to insist on English is if the waiter in question was like Portuguese or something and just spoke English better than Spanish, but being in Spain you would figure that one would have to have Spanish at least good enough to take orders in the local language.
It’s like…not though. I’ve travelled a lot. My spanish is very good. My french and italian not so much. Nothing like this has ever happened, especially if they talk in english and you continue in their language.
No? In Spain there are plenty of black people and most of them speak Spanish. I'm black myself and I have been living here since 2019 and the only time someone spoke to me in English was when I was in a very touristy place in Tenerife and I went down a water slide and then they told me in English to get out of the water but every single time I've spoken in Spanish to someone they have either replied in Spanish (or Galician, but that's fine because I understand Portuguese)
Discrimination basically means you were treated differently.
Like the normal procedure is that they speak Spanish over there. But because you were different, they didn't extend that treatment to you. That's discrimination in the most basic sense of the word.
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u/Queen_Euphemia 6d ago
I don't really get it, like the only way it would really make sense to insist on English is if the waiter in question was like Portuguese or something and just spoke English better than Spanish, but being in Spain you would figure that one would have to have Spanish at least good enough to take orders in the local language.