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Originally Posted by evanny
lol. in my country every single tourists expects us to speak english. italians usually want me to speak also italian. well most of us do speak english.
i imagine all of the tourists would be pissed off i people here would only speak latvian.
and yes those are too high expectations you have for being treated equally. you are visiting a country in which 99.999% of all gaijin speak other languages. only that 0.001% knows japanese or even less. so, if you had to bet on a horese? which one would you chose? the one with 99.999% chance? well if you are not a retard you will. so will businesses who are interested in their client satisfaction.
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I don't know how you do things in your country, but in my country, we address people in our own language first, and adjust ourselves if necessary. If a hispanic looking man walked into my store, I wouldn't racially profile him and immediately start speaking in Spanish first without even seeing if he spoke English first. For all I know, he might not speak a lick of Spanish. Where you live seems pretty backwards.
I'm not saying it's wrong to use English if the customer has proven himself incompetent in the language. But only after rather than racially profiling.