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Tourism becomes impossible

I saw on digg there was an article where a city board decided it was ok that a shop had a sign stating:

“This is America: WHEN ORDERING ‘PLEASE SPEAK ENGLISH’”

Now without going into how stupid this is or reopening the whole debate on making English the national language of the US, I want to leave people with a thought.

What happens when the almighty ‘English speaking Americans’ come to visit Europe? Now they have to learn how to order from McDonalds in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Slovenian, …

I know thinking is hard, but it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t try it…

2 Comments

  1. [...] Tourism becomes impossible Bishop Ruiz Project wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptNow they have to learn how to order from McDonalds in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Slovenian, …… [...]

  2. Pancho says:

    What would happen? The American tourist would get angry with the French or Greek because they don’t speak English. This happens. I have seen it. The best way to deal with the agresssively monolingual gringo recently happended to a cousein of mine. He asked someone in France “Parlez vous Anglais?” and the French person answered “No, do you speak French”

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