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Bilingual people- have you ever experienced the “this is America speak english” thing when speaking between family members/friends, and if so, were you white or poc? I’m trying to get an idea of how common it is mostly out of curiosity.
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Anonymous 22h

not from family/friends but definitely from classmates. i’m half asian so im in the camp of “too white for asian kids but too asian for white kids”, and moved to a predominantly white neighborhood in middle school from a very diverse district… it wasn’t fun

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Anonymous 1d

This curiosity is not for anything offensive btw, I speak another language with my family and with certain friends I’ll have a few things I say in another language here & there. I’ve never experienced it and always assumed it wouldn’t happen but I recently saw a video from Australia of some girlies from my home country getting yelled at to speak English.

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