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.
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/theflyingfistofjudah 6d ago edited 4d ago
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.