When did you catch someone casting shade at you in another language?

Once on the subway in New York City, this young guy was telling his friend in French,

Oh, who would wear red pants?

I turned to him and said,

You'd better watch out, you're not the only one that speaks French.

His friend then gets extremely embarrassed and says,

I told you so.

ASL here, you'd be surprised at how many deaf people freely talk crap about everyone.

It really is a different culture.

I'm American, I was in Paris on the metro, and I heard these drunk American girls talking about me.

I glanced at them and heard one of them say,

Do you think he's listening?

And her friend said, no, we're speaking English. He probably only understands French. I don't even speak French. Backpacking in China, a little girl near me asked her dad, what kind of person

is that? And I answered in Chinese, I am an American. I get these from kids all the time in

Korea. Usually they point and yell, Hey, Mom, it's a foreigner. The mum starts laughing instead of

smacking their kid for being rude. In response, my boyfriend and I look at each other in horror

and then yell in Korean, what? It's a Korean person. Usually the mum and kid go eyes wide

and are shocked. Living in Germany for a few years, I could understand German, was traveling in a

barn somewhere near Augsburg. A little girl around the age of five or six with her mother sat opposite

me and pointed at me and asked why I was so black. The mother

patiently explains about Afro-Americans and slavery and freedom. The girl waves at me while leaving.

I'm Indian. German here. It's astonishing how many people think they're safe if they speak

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