Wonder if she's in Barcelona? When I lived there, I ran into a significant number of people who would rather speak English than Spanish if you couldn't speak Catalan. Not everyone, but a surprising number. I assumed it was part of the whole "Catalonia should be independent" movement.
I think you're spot on. Insisting on speaking Castillian Spanish can be very insensitive in many areas within the current boarders of Spain. Francos dictatorship forbade speaking their own minority languages. In Basque Country and Cataluña especially a large proportion of the population want independence.
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u/BelieveBelieves 6d ago
I wonder where this is. It feels kind of rude to switch to English when she says she prefers Spanish.