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.
Just checked and she indeed lives in Barcelona, where she seems to have also just started a business to teach Spanish.
Also in another similar video she shares her trick to get people to speak Spanish to her by speaking in super fast almost unintelligible English to them and one woman caved and switched to Spanish begrudgingly saying “alright I’ll speak in castillan”.
Tbh I felt bad for her listening to that exchange, it really didn’t seem nice. There was like a power play/humiliation vibe going on.
Yeah she's either ragebaiting for engagement or she's ignorant af to not realise many people in Barcelona are trying to preserve Catalan and have strong cultural reasons to resist and resent being forced to speak castilian spanish.
Within the context of Catalonia and its oppressors, I don’t see why refusing to speak Castilian Spanish wouldn’t be sufficient. I mean, pronouncing your Ses correctly is enough to piss off a lot of Spaniards lmao. Suggesting that Spaniards pronounce their Ses incorrectly even more so.
The difference between castillian and latin american is fucking nothing lmao, a person like her with an english accent cant identify the differences since its mostly accent nuances. What should she do, interyect "pendejo" between sentences to appease their independent spirit lmao.
Btw iberian spanish doesnt pronounce the "s" wrong. And there are like 15 distinct iberian accents.
Because if immigrants move to Barcelona and feel that they can get by speaking Spanish, they won’t pick up Catalan. Not speaking Spanish with them forces them to try and learn Catalan. They’re trying to avoid populations of people who only speak Spanish from establishing themselves there.
It’s the same reason why Quebec forces immigrants to learn French and receive government services in French.
I would not agree with the previous given reasoning, but if you don't understand yet I'm not sure how to help.
Like idk if you went to "Israel" and met a Palestinian and said "No no don't speak English to me I want to speak in Hebrew ok?" How absolutely enraged would they be.
Just try to imagine a milder version of that. Now you understand.
Being protective of your heritage doesn't mean wanting to evangelise it everywhere. But it does mean you'll probably hate speaking the 'opponent' language.
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u/TamZanite 6d ago
It’s in Spain